While many people are fixated on the future, there’s still plenty that we don’t know about the past. After all, our planet ...

In the collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge is a small copper-alloy tool ...

The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.

Today, the scarab remains a focus of popular devotion through a tourist tradition: people circle it - often seven times - seeking luck, love, or a wish fulfilled, echoing (in a modern, secular form) ...

Philadelphia residents and visitors were presented with the unique opportunity to take a step back in time Saturday. The Penn ...

Now, a 3,300-year-old Egyptian text preserved in the British Museum is once again fueling one of the Bible's most controversial debates: were the giants of the Old Testament rooted in real historical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive limestone burial chamber was uncovered within a royal necropolis in Abydos, Egypt. Who the tomb belonged to remains a ...

Meet Tetinebefou—the wizard-doctor, priest, and royal dentist—whose newly discovered tomb reveals dazzling secrets about health and society 4,000 years ago.

A team of Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a 3,200-year-old tomb believed to belong to a high-ranking military commander from the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses III, often considered the last great ...

The tombs, discovered in the Qubbet el-Hawa site, were complete with shafts and burial chambers.

Archaeologists in Egypt recently found the tomb of an unknown pharaoh who ruled during a turbulent period about 3,600 years ago, the Penn Museum said Thursday. Penn researchers and Egyptian ...

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