Are hieroglyphs really as indecipherable as they look? Here is a primer on how to start interpreting these ancient motifs.

A one-of-a-kind sun hat, likely worn by a Roman soldier in Egypt, was recently unveiled for the first time – and its survival is considered miraculous. The sun hat is currently on display at the ...

A group of scientists has sequenced the genome of a man who was buried in Egypt around 4,500 years ago. The study offers rare insight into the genetic ancestry of early Egyptians and reveals links to ...

Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza were built to endure an eternity, but how remains one of the ancient world’s greatest mysteries.

Archaeologists have rediscovered a lost tomb that contains the mummy of an ancient Egyptian official. The tomb belonged to Ptahshepses, who lived around 4,400 years ago during the 25th and 24th ...

Carvings in a turquoise mine from around 1800 BC appear to mention a wise man named Moses. But scholars are skeptical that it ...

Archaeology & History Scientists Have Recreated the Long-Lost Formula for Ancient Egyptian Blue Pigment It started out as a “fun” museum project, but it could have high-tech applications.

For decades, as archaeologists dug into the history buried in the Valley of the Kings, Egyptians were laborers, never discoverers. Not on this dig.

My father always told me: in Sohag, the moment you open the door, nature greets you,’’ says Gehad Abdalla, an Egyptian artist ...

Like Roman concrete, the makeup of this “Egyptian blue” – the world’s oldest known synthetic pigment, used as far back as 5,000 years ago – has been semi-lost over time. Now, thanks to a ...

Fast Forward Egyptian president falsely claims Jews and Egyptians have always gotten along, raising a fraught and ancient history Sisi might have been tapping into a real grievance that Egyptians ...

The 52-year-old Brooklyn resident allegedly falsified provenance documents to conceal the artifacts' illicit origins.