Pyramids and temples show precise ancient engineeringAncient tools reveal advanced science and metallurgyOld medical and ...

Archaeologists in Dahwa, Oman, found two strange discs that turned out to be a rare 4,000-year-old musical instrument, ...

The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism may have been a kind of astronomical calculator, but researchers are unsure whether it would have worked without jamming ...

During an excavation at a site believed to date back to the Greek-era near Alexandria, archaeologists uncovered a stunning ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo, has been delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises and a pandemic. At long last, here’s a look inside.

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

When we think of modern innovations, we often picture digital devices, advanced medicine, or sleek engineering. But what if many of the ideas we call “modern” were already in use thousands of years ...

Archaeologists in West Texas have made an astonishing discovery which sheds light on the lives of prehistoric humans in ...

Archaeologists working in Egypt have unearthed a previously undiscovered school in the grand mortuary temple of Pharaoh ...

A few years back, when I was working as part of an archaeological mission in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, I unearthed a slab of white limestone covered in ancient paint smears. More of that later ...

Archaeologists in Oman uncovered a 4,000-year-old musical instrument, a pair of copper cymbals, in the ruins of an ancient ...