There’s nothing new about our modern obsession with playing and watching sports – they were popular in ancient Greek and ...

King Djoser of Egypt ordered his chief architect, Imhotep, to design a tomb like no other - The Step Pyramid of Djoser.

Most foreign visitors to Egypt stick to the Nile Valley or the Red Sea coast, but that's to miss the bulk of this huge ...

Ancient Greek sailors, whose sails caught the winds of curiosity and ambition, were among the earliest to venture beyond ...

An archaeological site that used to be a garbage dump has revealed the extraordinarily preserved mummy of an elite woman from ...

A study led by the UAB has revealed a practice that history has overlooked for millennia. An interdisciplinary study led by ...

where the fossilised skeletons of ancient whales (creatures whose limbs were still more leg-like than fin-like) lie half-covered in the sand – a sight as "astonishing" as any in Egypt.

The COVID pandemic and its aftermath have killed more than 1,220,000 people in the U.S. alone, and this has made everybody more aware of death’s omnipresence.

Archaeologists are revealing the secrets of a long-lost Stone Age civilisation – believed to be the oldest in the world.

Today, when one thinks of the origin of sports and athletic competitions, the ancient Greeks often come to mind. Although ...