The Bronze Age Mycenaeans were an ancient civilization from the Greek mainland known for their impressive architecture, rich ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the ancient remains of an Egyptian army barracks and the artifacts left there, including a still-shiny bronze sword engraved with the name of King Ramses II in ...

But the need to remove foreigners from northern Egypt ... army. Soldiering became a career with real prospects. At the beginning of the New Kingdom period, soldiers had primitive weapons and no armor.

More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with the insignia of Ancient Egypt’s Ramses II — the most powerful pharaoh of the era — was set down in a mud hut somewhere in the Nile Delta.

Archaeologists in Housh Eissa found the ruins of ancient military barracks and storehouses with food, weapons and other artifacts, photos show. Photo from Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and ...

Mohamed Ismail Khaled, the secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said that the barracks served as a "crucial military stronghold for the ancient Egyptian army on the western ...