Each block, quarried during the Ptolemaic Period of Ancient Egypt, is larger than the famous Stone of the Pregnant Woman at Baalbek and estimates say that each weighs between 2,000 and 3,000 tons.

A stone head that spent decades gathering dust on a wall has proved to be an Egyptian statue from an ancient tomb. The statue ...

An excavation at the Tell Abu Sefeh site in Egypt revealed sophisticated military fortifications from the Ptolemaic and Roman ...

Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ...

Archaeologists have uncovered vestiges of the ancient past in Sinai. A 2,000-year-old limestone road revealed an even older ...

The 3,300-year-old monument has sat in the French capital's center for almost 200 years, but no one else noticed these strange encryptions.

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

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The pyramids of Egypt fascinated travellers and conquerors in ancient times ... At Medum, a step pyramid was built, then filled in with stone, and covered with a limestone casing. Nearby at Bahshur, ...

A group of researchers believe they may have solved the mystery of a structure near the Pyramid of Djoser. It may have been part of a hydraulic lift system.

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.