Authorities said the initiative forms part of a national strategy to diversify accessible archaeological sites and boost ...

Anyone capable of forming a coherent sentence about the Great Pyramid of Giza would likely agree that it stands as one of the most extraordinary achievements ...

Were the Hittites of the Bible the same as those of the Hittite Empire? While this is a common assumption, what do the facts ...

The ancient Beykoy texts describe the activities of Muksus, a king of Troy who may well have been the leader of the Sea ...

While the infants were not given individual graves, they were not discarded without care. The excavations revealed that the children were buried alongside simple grave goods. The archaeologists ...

Rock-cut tombs newly opened in southern Egypt have yielded about 160 inscribed pottery vessels and a scatter of mirrors and ...

Archaeologists say they have uncovered new evidence that the production of arsenical bronze was known to the ancient Middle ...

As you can tell, there’s a long way to go. The two largest collections of the bronzes are still the Ethnological Museum of ...

As often occurs, Holy Week for Christians that culminates Sunday with Easter coincides with Passover for Jews, which started ...

Egypt discovers tombs dating back more than 4,000 years in Aswan, one of which contains 160 nearly intact pots.

NPR art director and illustrator Jackie Lay tells the story of Hatshepsut, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest ...

Some 2,000 years ago, a man from India named Cikai Korran scratched his name in several places inside rocky tombs in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, the sacred burial site of pharaohs and elites, ...