Archaeologists have uncovered ancient Egyptian graves that reveal strange and haunting rituals and acts carried out on the dead that may rewrite what we knew about early religion.

Joe Rogan slammed ancient Egyptian researchers for suppressing 30,000 years of history in a wild interview with fellow podcast host Danny Jones.

The sequencing of a genome extracted from the remains of an individual from ancient Egypt has revealed that 77.6% of their ancestry traces back to Neolithic North Africa, as defined by researchers ...

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human genome sequence from ancient Egypt. The remains are 4,800 to 4,500 years ...

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented insight about the ancestry of a man who lived during the time when the ...

During this period of ancient Egyptian history, archaeological evidence has suggested trade and cultural connections existed with the Fertile Crescent—an area of West Asia encompassing modern ...

The researchers who claimed to have found a vast underground city beneath Egypt's Great Pyramids doubled down on the wild theory Tuesday by saying they've found a second "hidden city." ...

Mathematics in ancient Egypt Calculation principles found in a papyrus scroll, and an author shares his love of lichens in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.

ISTANBUL (RNS) — Initial reports that the centuries-old St. Catherine's Monastery would be closed were denied, but Orthodox leaders remain concerned that the monastery's new status will ...

Archaeologists uncovered ancient military fortifications from Ptolemaic and Roman eras in Egypt's Tell Abu Sefeh, revealing strategic defenses that protected Egypt's eastern frontier.

Sarcophagus lids, a Greco-Roman portrait and fragments of what is believed to be a temple of Queen Hatshepsut were among 25 rare artifacts returned to Egypt from the United States, the Egyptian ...

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced this week it had successfully recovered a rare trove of smuggled artifacts from the United States.