Eric Idle sometime gazes up into the heavens and wonders about something if we ever make contact with aliens: Will they have a sense of humor? “I think the answer must be yes, because it’s about ...

An Italian archaeological mission has discovered the remains of a sun temple belonging to an ancient Egyptian king near Cairo, the Egyptian antiquities ministry said. The temple of King Nyuserre is ...

Until now, the earliest Egyptians to have even part of their DNA sequenced were three people who lived between 787 and 544 b.c. A team including geneticist Adeline Morez Jacobs of Liverpool John ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...

Egypt has recovered two ancient artifacts from Belgium following a decade-long effort, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on December 2. In 2015, Belgian authorities responded ...

The newly excavated 4,500-year-old valley temple from ancient Egypt holds a "public calendar" and a roof for astronomical observation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump has claimed that film director Rob Reiner was killed due to his criticism of the president. Reiner’s son Nick was arrested after the Hollywood director and his wife Michelle ...

Roman military officers stationed in Egypt kept pet monkeys imported from India as a symbol of wealth, according to a new study of an ancient animal cemetery containing the bodies of dozens of ...

Crews discovered an ancient Egyptian pleasure boat, known as a thalamegos, shipwrecked and fully submerged near present-day Alexandria. The nearly 115-foot-long boat was made of wood and propelled ...

Shabti, the ancient Egyptian funerary figurines that were supposed to work for the deceased in their afterlife, have revealed the identity of a pharaoh in an unnamed sarcophagus. Pharaoh Shoshenq III ...

For generations, archaeologists combed the Valley of the Kings, convinced that more royal secrets were still hidden beneath its cliffs. Survey notes piled up, digs stalled, and every promising lead ...

Crocodiles loomed large in the world of the ancient Egyptians. The Nile teemed with the lurking reptiles, and farmers, who made up most of the population, encountered them on a daily basis. While ...