New studies trace the domestication of cats to ancient Egypt, linking their origins to religious rituals and the cult of ...

Upon further inspection, they found that this was a nearly complete skull, which they went on to extract. Finding any ancient ...

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced this week it had successfully recovered a rare trove of smuggled ...

The collection includes sarcophagus lids, a Greco-Roman portrait and fragments of what is believed to be a temple of Queen ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

Archaeologists uncover an ancient Egyptian fortress in Sinai with 500 trees, deep moats, paved roads, and housing—dating back over 2,000 years to the Ptolemaic period.

In ancient Egypt, the heart was considered the most important organ, as it was thought to be the location of a person's intelligence and memory. After a person died, their heart was weighed by Ma ...

For 28-year-old Recarey, the visit to Upper Egypt was far more than a sightseeing stop. "Ancient Egypt was the cradle of civilization. It all started here," he reflected. Upper Egypt's Aswan and ...

King Djoser of Egypt ordered his chief architect, Imhotep, to design a tomb like no other - The Step Pyramid of Djoser.

A group of researchers believe they may have solved the mystery of a structure near the Pyramid of Djoser. It may have been part of a hydraulic lift system. There are many theories for how the ...