The excavation of two Egyptian tombs dating to the Roman period, between 29 B.C.E. and 641 C.E., just unveiled a wealth of ...

While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient ...

Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding ...

Human Rights Watch joins twelve other human rights organization to urge the UK Foreign Secretary to secure the release of British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah during his trip to Egypt.

The former U.S. senator from New Jersey was convicted in July of accepting bribes including gold bars, cash, and a ...

After 20 years of development, The Grand Egyptian Museum brings ancient Egypt back to life.

The total research base is around 4,000 inscribed or stamped artifacts of pottery, sandstone, and copper, consisting of ...

Thousands of years ago, people on what is now the Danish island of Bornholm threw hundreds of mysteriously carved stones into a ditch before burying them. The purpose of these so-called 'sun stones', ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

Mansour's arrest may ease Egyptian worries over HTS rise Egypt fears Syria's upheaval aids Islamist regrouping Egyptian media critical of Damascus power change, Brotherhood resurgence DAMASCUS ...

Negotiators were near to hammering out the final details of a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after marathon talks in Qatar, and U.S. and Egyptian leaders promised to stay in close ...

Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent The Derveni Papyrus, named for the ...