These ancient structures still stand - but the people who built them remain a mystery that history can’t fully explain.

A lot of little kids go through the dinosaur phase, and I was no exception. But where most broke off into loving sports or ...

From royal tombs to submerged ports, via the genetic secrets of ancient civilisations, archaeology delivered a series of ...

Iron Age cargoes from Dor reveal how ancient Mediterranean trade evolved alongside shifting empires and political power. New ...

Nyuserre valley temple discovered in Abusir is a monumental complex next to the river that is dedicated to the Sun god, Ra.

Here's a look at what archaeologists' most recent discovery is telling them about life in Egypt after the pharaohs.

It is well-known that Pythagoras’ ancient Greek equation for right triangles: a2+ b2= c2 , is older than ancient Greece. We also know that in Khufu’s pyramid the height equals the radius of a circle ...

A scan revealed that an Egyptian crocodile mummy preserves a fish caught on a bronze hook after more than 2,000 years.

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him both ...

The monastery complex discovery comprised the remains of a church, residential halls, and communal dining spaces, in addition ...

The archeologist Massimiliano Nuzzolo has spent much of his career searching for Egypt’s lost sun temples. Created by pharaohs of the fifth dynasty, sun temples were companions to pyramids and built ...

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