The power of Ramses III spread over key routes and was marked by rock inscriptions in his name—one has been found in Wadi Rum ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a stunning ancient Egyptian tomb in Abydos, revealing a grand burial chamber that ismore than 3 ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

That was the first royal tomb found at near the Valley of the Kings site since the 1922 discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb—although any treasures from the latest tomb there have yet to be discovered.

A newly unearthed settlement in Egypt’s north-western Nile Delta dates back around 3,400 years to the New Kingdom era and ...

The houses in Luxor seem to strive skyward, forever optimistic. From their roofs, brick columns rise to the heavens, ...