Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

Travelers visiting Egypt have long marveled at the vestiges of the pharaohs’ lost world—the great pyramids, ancient temples and ... uses a Lidar scanner to map the 4,300-year-old tomb of ...

Trodden by millions of pilgrims over the ages, this sacred site is marked on many maps as Mount Sinai ... who was martyred in Alexandria, Egypt, in the fourth century. Angels, it is said ...

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

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

Alexander the Great famously founded the city of Alexandria in 331 BCE. It went on to be the capital of the Ptolemaic Kingdom ...

Archaeologists have discovered an Egyptian settlement likely built by Tutankhamun's father around 3,400 years ago in a huge ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a "major" 3,400-year-old town dating to the New Kingdom that was ...

The settlement was found at the site of Kom el-Nugus in northern Egypt, about 27 miles (43 kilometers) west of Alexandria on a ... Researchers found the older ancient Egyptian settlement while ...

especially involving some of Ancient ... Luxor, Egypt. Sergio Pitamitz / VWPics/AP Images During an excavation at a site believed to date back to the Greek-era near Alexandria, archaeologists ...

An entire ancient Egyptian settlement from the New Kingdom, also known as the Golden Age of Egypt, surfaced from beneath Greek ruins at the site of Kom el-Nugus near Alexandria Among the artifacts ...

The new findings, published in the journal Antiquity, contribute to a "re-evaluation of the ancient history of northern Egypt ... about 27 miles west of Alexandria between the Mediterranean ...