Egypt is celebrating a new wave of remarkable discoveries that reinforce its status as a global centre of archaeological ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered the 1,700-year-old tomb of the earliest known ruler of the ancient Maya city of Caracol. The tomb of Te K’ab Chaak, who once ruled over what is now modern-day ...

Strange architectural alignments and unusual symbols at Karnak have led some researchers to claim there may be evidence of an ...

In Luxor, Egypt, a ‘lost city of gold’ is gradually revealing the story of its construction and sudden abandonment more than 3,000 years ago. Its remains could reveal more about the troubled years of ...

Researchers in the UK have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived more than ...

Nine steps down a stone staircase in Egypt’s Aga Khan Mausoleum, archaeologists discovered a host of hieroglyphic ...

Greek and Roman rock-cut tombs discovered near Aswan’s Aga Khan Mausoleum offer new insights into burial customs in ancient Egypt.

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

The Egyptian queen Hatshepsut is a beloved figure in global history because she was a powerful female pharaoh, which was ...

The long-lost Wonder of the World was rediscovered underwater in 1968. Finally, some of its blocks have been raised to the ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a lost city in Peru that thrived 3,500 years ago, likely as a potential contemporary of early human societies such as the ancient Egyptian and Sumerian civilisations of ...

The depth of the writer’s commitment is tested when he meets with a Southern Californian tattooist proficient in ancient ...