The 19-line poem was inscribed on a stone slab in the Bir al-Shaghala necropolis. The lament "is a highly literary and ...

The ship was likely transporting huge jars of olive oil or wine across the Mediterranean when it sank to the seafloor. One ...

A fascinating new discovery may offer fresh clues about how the ancient Egyptian pyramids were constructed. Researchers have ...

An extraordinary Roman-era pyramid tomb containing an ancient Egyptian 'gateway to the underworld' has been uncovered in a ...

A skull from the now extinct ‘Herugavialis cairensis’ was discovered in the 1920s—and is also missing part of its nose.

Archaeologists have discovered what is believed to be the world's oldest known shipwreck off the coast of Turkey, dating back ...

Archaeologists have discovered what they believe is the world’s oldest shipwreck off the coast of Turkey, uncovering an old ...

There’s little left of the ship itself but based on clues from its cargo, a research team has tentatively dated the wreck to ...

Reconstruction of the extinct Herugavialis cairensis with the Great Sphinx and pyramids depicted in the background. Artwork ...

In the 1920s, Egyptologist Flinders Petrie discovered an unsettling number of subsidiary burials surrounding royal tomb ...

Underwater archaeologists have recovered amphorae which may date a shipwreck off Turkey's Mediterranean coast as the oldest ...

A 6,500-year-old Indigenous sacred site in Arizona has been damaged during construction of the Trump administration’s border ...