There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

Because these objects are anchored to specific historical contexts, their ages provide a reliable snapshot of the period. The ...

The New Kingdom, which lasted from 1550 to 1070 BCE, was Egypt's peak of power, wealth, and territorial expansion, the era of ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

New analysis of Amarna period artifacts suggests that before Tutankhamun took the throne as a child, two of Akhenaten’s ...

How a booming smuggling market led a 15-ton iron space rock to be stolen, sold by terrorists and hidden somewhere in China ...

Dating back to the reign of Amenhotep III, who ruled over Egypt between 1391 and 1353 BC, Aten is the largest ancient ...

Some locations carry a reputation that makes people uneasy before they even arrive. The stories tied to them come from ...

A treasure trove of 225 funerary figurines has been discovered inside a tomb in the ancient Egyptian capital of Tanis in the ...

A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.