Scientists and researchers exploring a high plain near the pyramid complex have documented massive bedrock shafts, sealed openings, and signs of extensive underground construction. Many of these ...

Ahead of Pyramids' clash with Flamengo in the Challenger Cup, goalkeeper Ahmed El Shenawy speaks to FIFA about the club's recent success and global ambitions.

There were many ways in which the elites of ancient Roman society flaunted their wealth. They built vast villas, sponsored ...

A crown was left with the deceased, but its position indicated her reign may not have ended the way she would have liked.

Egyptian alabaster vessels may have been the ancient world’s hookah. In a study published in September in the Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, researchers identified ...

Opium use may have been widespread in ancient Egyptian culture—including potentially among notable kings. Yale researchers found chemical traces of opiates in an ancient alabaster vase at the Peabody ...

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 ...

Federal authorities have recovered more than a dozen ancient Egyptian artifacts illegally smuggled into the United States and destined for private collectors, including a funerary statue valued at ...

While there are still uncertainties about how exactly the three gigantic pyramids on Egypt’s Giza Plateau were built, no one doubts that the work involved was intensive and difficult. But as revealed ...

The great civilizations of the ancient Americas were incredibly active and productive, and new evidence of their industriousness and ambition has been discovered at a well-known archaeological hot ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new secrets from the Old Kingdom. This facial reconstruction of an ancient ...

A study suggests that the first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, was built using a hydraulic lift. Dated to about 4,500 years ago, this would move up the introduction of ...