The oldest representation of the night sky and our Milky Way galaxy was found in an Egyptian sarcophagus, revealing ancient ...

At Egypt’s Elephantine Island, newly examined granite artifacts reveal machining marks that some experts believe couldn’t have been made with primitive tools. This video explores the most compelling ...

I'm Brien Foerster, and I take you deep into the mysteries of ancient civilizations, lost technologies, megalithic sites, and unexplained history around the world. From Peru to Egypt and beyond ...

We learn that it’s not just the overwhelmingly White and male field of Classics that is to blame for the lack of attention paid to the everyday workers of Ancient Egypt and Rome, but also the ...

Or what remedies filled the medicine cabinets of pyramid builders? Turns out, one of ancient Egypt’s most treasured healing plants still exists today — and modern science is finally catching ...

When we think of ancient Egypt, we often imagine huge pyramids, gold-laden tombs, and grand temples. But beyond the monumental and the majestic everyday life, ancient Egypt was also full of ...

This was my final excursion before flying home after a week-long trip down the River Nile, a trip that felt decades in the making thanks to my lifelong obsession with ancient Egypt. The caveat to ...

Egyptian officials announced Tuesday the discovery of the tomb of King Thutmose II, the last of the lost tombs of the kings of ancient Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, which reigned for over two ...

South of Egypt, the Nile meanders through a vast desert landscape: the ancient region of Nubia ... pushed the empire’s boundaries as far as Elephantine, or present-day Aswan, thereby bringing ...

This was but one high-water mark in the long African American engagement with the cultures of northeast Africa, home of ancient Egypt ... more an effort to map a proliferating visual history ...

“Elephantine Island of the Millennia” brings together newly translated texts, artifacts, and interactive “activity stations” to tell the story of a place unlike any other in ancient Egypt.