Since their discovery, the historically and biblically hugely important Dead Sea Scrolls have transformed our understanding ...

Nestled in the Sinai mountains, the ancient St Catherine's Monastery has been the centre of recent tensions after an Egyptian ...

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

Honoring the late Rabbi Abraham Hamra, the chief rabbi of Syrian Jewry, the library unveiled several of the 12 fragile ...

A CLEVER team of archaeologists have unearthed a trio of ancient tombs which all belonged to a peculiar set of Egyptians. The ...

The story of Ancient Egypt is the story of the Nile. The river’s floods, cycles, and central location allowed a great ...

Fragments of the Antikythera Mechanism at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. © Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via ...

This feature led directly towards the Abaton, the sanctuary which ancient Egyptians believed housed the tomb of Osiris’s remains. Nesmeterakhem belonged ... up with August 24 394 AD in the Gregorian ...

The team has uncovered and photographed scenes that reveal how ancient Egyptians depicted and worshipped ... chief among them New Year’s Day. A lengthy calendar of festivals beginning on that ...

The unearthing of the long-lost tomb of ancient Egyptian King ... to the tombs of kings in ancient Egypt. Archaeologists found Thutmose II’s mummified remains two centuries ago, but his original ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...