Picture a country where pharaohs once ruled, and billion-dollar smart cities rise from desert sands. Egypt isn’t just about ...

A newly identified crocodile relative from Egypt pushes back the origins of the marine-hunting dyrosaurids by millions of years. The fossil, Wadisuchus kassabi, shows a mix of primitive and advanced ...

Archaeologists unearthed a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mining camp in the Sukari Mountains. They found evidence of ancient gold mining, processing, and purification.

An ancient alabaster vase from Yale’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opium, offering the strongest evidence yet of widespread opiate use in ancient Egypt. A recently analyzed alabaster v ...

Some common foods that we have in our pantries can be traced back to ancient times. Take a look at the deep history of our ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has moved to quell mounting concerns over new construction at Deir El-Bahari, ...

Kissing is more than just "mouth-to-mouth" touching, and the study doesn't really shed much light on why humans kiss the way ...

A secret doorway inside an ancient Egyptian pyramid is believed to have been discovered by a scientist, over 4,500 years on from when it was originally built. The Pyramid of Menkaure, the smallest of ...

Many scholars today argue that the Israelites never really conquered Canaan. What does the evidence really show?

Now, a new DNA analysis of a sprawling set of ancient feline remains reveal that the precursors to modern housecats ...

Rather than being a recent cultural development, kissing may have been practised by other early humans like Neanderthals and ...