"Chocolates with a palpable crunch, such as Swiss Toblerone and Ferrero Rocher ... Europe tell a hidden story charting the fortunes of ancient Rome and the legacy it left in the continent's ...

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

Tomb art suggests the sky goddess Nut from ancient Egypt might reveal the oldest depiction of our galaxy.

The Valley of the Kings and other bucket-list Egyptian destinations offer a glimpse into millennia-old majesty and artistry ...

The collection includes sarcophagus lids, a Greco-Roman portrait and fragments of what is believed to be a temple of Queen ...

Or what remedies filled the medicine cabinets of pyramid builders? Turns out, one of ancient Egypt’s most treasured healing plants still exists today — and modern science is finally catching ...

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 ...

which took place in 1157 BCE in the Ancient Egyptian artisan’s village of Deir el-Medina. Left: Brooklyn Museum workers picketing in September 2023 (photo Elaine Velie/Hyperallergic); right ...

An unusual depiction of the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut may include a representation of the "Dark River" or "Great Rift"—the band along the Milky Way caused by dust clouds.

In ancient Egypt, the heart was considered the most important organ, as it was thought to be the location of a person's intelligence and memory. After a person died, their heart was weighed by Ma ...

While this is the clearest known evidence for the ancient Egyptians understanding the Milky Way, others examples have also been found to reveal the knowledge of the cosmos. Ancient Egyptians were ...