A mummy in Egypt has yielded a shocking discovery: the DNA of the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis—thousands of years before ...

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

Saqqara reveals more of its hidden secrets with the unveiling of a trove of treasures found on January 17th, including 3,000-year-old sarcophagi near the Pyramid of King Teti, the first Pharaoh of the ...

Historians have deciphered a 1,900-year-old papyrus discovered in the Judean desert that details an elaborate tax evasion scheme, forgery and fraudulent sale and manumission of slaves by two men.

The allegations are laid out in a papyrus that was discovered decades ago in the Judean desert but only recently analyzed.

An Incredible DiscoveryFor centuries we’ve wondered how the ancient Egyptians built the magnificent pyramids of Giza.

Two large ancient boats, possibly used to move cargo down the river, were discovered when a community expanded their fishing pond in Vietnam ...

The longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean Desert, which sheds new light on a legal drama that unfolded in Israel nearly 2,000 years ago, has now been published for the first time. Over the ...