Her body was positioned to face the setting sun at the winter solstice, while her sarcophagus was aligned with the heliacal rising of Sirius; the brightest star in the sky, associated with the annual ...

The remains of a talented healer and 'priest and magician' who was thought to have treated pharaohs have been found in Egypt, ...

The tomb of Teti Neb Fu, an ancient Egyptian physician who lived around 4,000 years ago during the sixth dynasty, was ...

Teti Neb Fu is a fascinating historic character who is believed to have likely been an expert in treating scorpion or snake ...

"It's amazing how people so far apart developed such similar aesthetics." Such a sense of resonance and discovery is fueling ...

A megalithic monument older than Egypt's pyramids and England's Stonehenge recently emerged from the water in Spain as a ...

A piece of ancient Egyptian petroglyph dating back to the First Dynasty offers new insights into the origins of the state.

Researchers led by Tohoku University’s Motoyuki Sato used GPR—along with a method known as electrical resistivity tomography ...

A mummy in Egypt has yielded a shocking discovery: the DNA of the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis—thousands of years before ...

British archaeologists recently helped uncover multistory buildings from the ancient Egyptian city Imet in the Nile Delta, ...

An ancient rock art near Aswan may show one of Egypt’s earliest rulers, revealing new clues about the birth of state power.

Nine steps down a stone staircase in Egypt’s Aga Khan Mausoleum, archaeologists discovered a host of hieroglyphic inscriptions among what they call “one of the most architecturally impressive and well ...