Elephantine, a town at Egypt's southern frontier near modern-day Aswan, provides a unique window into the urban life of some ...

Scans of a hill showed a dense concentration of abandoned buildings, so archaeologists started digging. Here’s what they ...

TORONTO – A new study suggests that Queen Hatshepsut, one of ancient Egypt’s most successful rulers, was not targeted after ...

In the early 20th century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia. Eva Miller traces how both the mythology of Babel and ...

Scholars have long believed that Hatshepsut’s spiteful successor wanted to destroy every image of her, but the truth may be ...

The story of Greeks in Alexandria goes back more than two millennia, when Alexander the Great established the city.

In the early 20th century, architects and artists like Hugh Ferriss drew on the myths and monuments of ancient Babylon to ...

PERHAPS the history of Islam is incomplete without a mention of Egypt. This is an ancient country that has pioneered world ...

Experts at the Museum of London Archaeology announced a thrilling new discovery after piecing together an ancient Roman ...

Ancient Egyptians were not only masters of architecture – they also were the original wizards of synthetic chemistry. Around ...

Researchers claim to have found a second underground city beneath Giza Pyramid, revealing what may be part of a vast ...

From the fairytale towers of Bavaria’s Neuschwanstein to the golden battlements of Jaipur’s Amber Fortress in India, these ...