The on-site museum is a great place to check out Mayan glyphs, pottery and ancient carvings. The Great Pyramid of Cholula is one of the largest pyramids in the world, standing at 55 metres (180 feet) ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Shattered depictions of Hatshepsut have long thought to be products of her successor’s violent hatred towards her, but a new ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Between 1550 and 30 B.C., many ancient Egyptian paintings and sculptures depicted men and women wearing small, conical ...

More than five millennia ago, an Egyptian weaver created a simple, tailored linen dress, likely not realizing just how long it would stick around. The Tarkhan Dress, carbon-dated to 3482 to 3102 B.C., ...

For decades it was thought that the family system of the ancient Egyptians was very similar to our own. However, Ph.D. candidate Steffie van Gompel explains that the reality is somewhat different ...

The team identified an astounding 61 species of plants during their analysis, providing a richer picture of the ancient Egyptian landscape. The pyramids at Giza have puzzled historians for centuries.

A Co Antrim primary school studying ancient Egyptian history “brought the topic to life” after performing an Egyptian-themed flash mob in Belfast. Pupils from two P5 classes at St Joseph’s ...