As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

More than 4,000 years after the pyramids, Egypt’s leaders are pinning hopes on the Grand Egyptian Museum to revive national ...

In 1972, the Necropolis of Varna in Bulgaria unveiled the world's oldest processed gold, dating back to 4,600–4,200 BC. The ...

Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the teeth of a remarkably well-preserved skeleton found in a sealed funeral pot in ...

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

Penn engineering researchers modified a fungus called Aspergillus flavus, which may have caused lung disease and illness in archeologists who discovered King Tut’s tomb.

Archaeologists in Greece have uncovered a 2,000-year-old tomb near Corinth containing a gold Apollo ring with a healing ...

The incredible number of shiny shell beads found in the Montelirio tomb reveal an ancient economy able to support large-scale ...

Several important and beautiful discoveries of Mycenaean gold objects have been made by archaeologists, particularly in royal ...

Brown reportedly noticed an unnatural section of rock on a cliff face, which gave way to a cave “that curved downward into the mountain,” Frank wrote. After days of exploring and cataloging, Brown ...

Our eight-day cruise hit many highlights: the extensive temples at Karnak and Luxor; the colossal statues of Ramses II ...