A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is a 4,600-year-old engineering miracle built with such precision that modern architects still struggle to explain it. This documentary breaks down the leading scientific ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza has been studied for centuries, yet new technology is still revealing features that earlier ...

There are many common misconceptions about ancient Egypt that historians and scholars alike have debunked. Credits: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Many misconceptions about ...

Following a $50m revamp of the Pyramids and the opening of the GEM Museum, now is the ideal time to take to the Nile, as Bella Falk discovers on a 12-day cruise from Cairo to Aswan ...

“The Age of Disclosure,” a documentary featuring government and military officials, was screened for a bipartisan group of members of the House of Representatives. The director Dan Farah at a showing ...

On November 9 local time, the first China-Egypt Investment Forum, jointly organized by the Chinese Embassy in Egypt, the General Authority for Investment and Free Zones of Egypt, and the Egyptian ...

“Plan C for Civilization” takes stock of the amateurs and experts who see promise in using technology to cool the Earth. Two geoengineering projects unfold side by side. Both involve a futuristic ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

When it was made: Circa 1425 to 1353 B.C. In 1906, archaeologists discovered this wig of an Egyptian woman known as Merit when excavating her tomb, which she shared with her husband Kha, in Luxor ...

Excerpted from Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations by Sam Kean. Copyright ...