Archaeologists uncovered a 3,600-year-old royal tomb at Abydos that may belong to a forgotten pharaoh from a debated Egyptian dynasty.

An Egyptologist deciphers secret messages hidden for 3,000 years in the Luxor obelisk that millions see every day.

Carved into rock near the village of El-Khawy in southern Egypt, a massive line of ancient hieroglyphs has just been brought to light by archaeologists. They are the oldest large-scale line of ancient ...

The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...

For Connor Parente’s debut album, the wide variety of his influences are expressed somewhere throughout the record. “So no ...

The pyramids do not merely rise from the desert; they occupy the collective psyche of the nation, standing as permanent ...

The first alphabetic writing system was created in the Levant and Sinai Peninsula sometime in the second millennium B.C., probably between 1850 and 1700 B.C., by adapting Egyptian hieroglyphs—a ...

Pit-firing leaves smoke traces on ceramic pieces, giving them a look of antiquity, a texture, and causing variations in ...

Relief of Osiris from the Temple of Seti I, Abydos, Egypt. According to Egyptian mythology, Egypt’s first king Osiris sailed around the world spreading knowledge, exactly like the Feathered Serpent ...

The Great Blue Hole in Belize is a massive ... hole that’s roughly 300m in diameter and over 120m deep, said to be formed ...

A New Year now arrives with heads that burst with fierce hangovers, ears that still throb with the leftover beats from screeching dance floors, and eyes that be ...

We’ve been able to decipher ancient Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs, Cuneiform, and Old Persian, but not Voynichese.