Across the Levant in the 15th century B.C., cities were rising up against freshly-installed pharaoh Thutmose III. It would be ...

Idealism, a hunger for power and a wish to prosper have driven some of the earliest efforts to build a world order.

A joint Egyptian-Canadian archaeological team has identified the owner of ancient Theban Tomb, Kampp 23, located in the ...

STORY: You might think that a mummified corpse would have a fairly unpleasant stink.But according to scientists researching ...

Their tangle with Egypt’s Ramses the Great at the Battle of Kadesh resulted in the world’s first peace treaty. (3,200-year-old trees reveal the collapse of an ancient empire.) “They were ...

Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses I sat longer at Emory University than he did on the throne. His presumptive remains now lay encased in glass at Egypt’s Luxor Museum, a simple cloth draped from his ...

An Egyptologist uncovered pro-Ramesses II hieroglyphs on Paris' obelisk, revealing ancient messages supportive of the alleged ...

Archaeologists excavating a tomb at Egypt's Umm El Qa'āb necropolis just unearthed hundreds of wine jars dating back 5,000 ...

In the early 1900s, the center of Cairo was the cultural heart of the city, with an opera house, gardens and elegant hotels ...

The alignment of some megalithic temples in Malta suggests they may have been used to teach sailors how to navigate by the ...

Clues are emerging about the ghostly clan that settled eastern Asia and left a genetic legacy in people today.