For the very first time, scientists have sequenced DNA from the entire genome of an individual who lived in ancient Egypt up to 4,800 years ago – right when the first pyramids were being built. The ...

The earliest origins of rare intact—and inscribed—Egyptian alabaster vessels like the one examined are generally unknown but span the reigns of Achaemenid emperors Darius, Xerxes, and Artaxerxes, a ...

While we are most familiar with the Vedic zodiac, the ancient Egyptians also had their own sophisticated system of astrology. Unlike the Greco-Roman system, which is based on constellations, the ...

The Great Sphinx of Giza, a massive limestone statue with the body of a lion and the head of a human, has long represented the power of ancient Egypt.

More than four thousand years after its construction, the Pyramid of Menkaure, the third largest of the Giza pyramids, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers studied the geologic history around the Karnak Temple near Luxor to distinguish when the famed temple could have been constructed. The ...

A sweeping new geoarchaeological study has revealed how Egypt’s famed Karnak Temple complex rose from an island amid Nile floods to become one of the ancient world’s most enduring sacred centers. By ...

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The Secret of the Great Pyramid moves between the ancient and the modern. The ancient story chronicles, step-by-step, how a nation of farmers only recently emerged from the Stone Age could construct ...