A University of Kansas researcher has spent years studying "aquaterra"—his term for regions around the world once populated ...

Generations of creatives have looked back to ancient Egypt in their search for art and design inspiration—here are three ...

An engraved panel from Aswan may show one of Egypt's earliest political elites. It reveals how rulers used art to claim space ...

History is full of strange, unexplainable events that can leave anyone scratching their head in wonder. From lost civilizations to unsolved murders, the ...

Researchers led by Tohoku University’s Motoyuki Sato used GPR—along with a method known as electrical resistivity tomography (ERT), which uses electrical resistance to map underground structures—to ...

Welcome to Al-Monitor Riyadh. This week we preview an upcoming exhibition in London showcasing the work of the Saudi artist ...

The precise origins of human glassmaking are lost to history, but archaeologists generally trace the craft back more than ...

To explore the evidence, we need to look at the desert, which may seem strange when discussing whales. The ocean once roamed across what is now the Egyptian desert, and approximately 37 million years ...

A large ancient Egyptian fortress in the northern Sinai Desert had an elaborate landscape of 500 trees leading to its entrance more than 2,000 years ago, new excavations reveal. Archaeologists ...

Most foreign visitors to Egypt stick to the Nile Valley or the Red Sea coast, but that's to miss the bulk of this huge country – the deserts that stretch westwards from the river to the Libyan ...