Rather than keeping out invaders, it's believed the curves in these ancient fortress walls helped prevent them being eroded away by sand.

Dabbs of Southern Illinois University and Anna Stevens of Monash University reviewed the archaeological and bioarchaeological evidence for plague in Akhetaten, the capital city built by the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten in 1346 B.

Most comprehensive study of the temple complex and its surrounding land and water scapes identifies the earliest period of occupation and points to a possible connection with a creation myth. An inter

President John Dramani Mahama has arrived in Cairo ahead of the highly anticipated grand opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), set to take place tomorrow, November 1 .

Excavations are shedding light on what life was like at the ancient site, which may have once housed hundreds of soldiers at a time

The Polish archaeological missions to Egypt and the Sudan in 1986-1987 were active in several areas, summarized here by Daszewski. In Egypt, excavations were carried out in Alexandria, Tell Atrib in the Nile Delta, in Cairo at the Emir Kebir Qurqumas ...

Egypt has officially unveiled the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), a monumental project that has taken decades to complete and is now being hailed as the world’s largest archaeological museum. The museum, whose construction cost more than $1.2 billion ...