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

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Along the west bank of the Nile near Aswan, Egypt, a series of rock-cut tombs have been holding centuries of history and artifacts. A renewed excavation at the Oubbet el-Hawa site has uncovered some ...

Near Alexandria in Egypt, this lost city was once an ancient place of pleasure, but today, it lies beneath the waves of the ...

A researcher claims the Great Pyramids may predate ancient Egypt and could be the work of a lost civilization with advanced ...

Continue the adventure inside the legendary Egyptian Museum in Cairo where a 22nd birthday celebration unfolds among five thousand years of history, from the only surviving statue of pyramid builder ...

A small copper tool found in a museum drawer is now confirmed as the oldest rotary metal drill in ancient Egypt, dating back 5,300 years.

Archaeologists have uncovered rock-cut tombs dating back to the Old Kingdom in Aswan, Egypt, revealing pottery vessels and jewelry.

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 ...

A lesser-known period in Egyptian history has just been unearthed. Penn Museum and Egyptian archaeologists, alongside the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, have discovered a massive tomb ...

Today the world of Egyptology faces a silent crisis – not of looting, although that plays a part, but of disconnection. Walk into any major museum, from Copenhagen to California, and you see glass ...