For almost 2,000 years, a once-bustling city in the desert of Saudi Arabia was left abandoned to the sands of time. Hegra, a ...

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

Using writing, objects, tools and drawings, archaeologists are able to piece together the story of the Ancient Egyptians ... young to go and work in the desert building the pyramids.

In rural Egypt, where the Nile’s fertile banks meet the desert’s edge, mudbrick houses, some standing for centuries, remain ...

A large ancient Egyptian fortress in the northern Sinai Desert had an elaborate landscape of 500 trees leading to its entrance more than 2,000 years ago, new excavations reveal. Archaeologists ...

That’s largely the case today, but 7,000 years ago the vast desert was an altogether different ... Now, with the help of ancient DNA from mummified remains, geneticists are figuring out who ...

India, with its rich spiritual heritage, is home to some of the world’s most ancient monasteries which are steeped in history ...

Using writing, objects, tools and drawings, archaeologists are able to piece together the story of the Ancient Egyptians ... young to go and work in the desert building the pyramids.