Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

In Luxor, Egypt, a ‘lost city of gold’ is gradually revealing the story of its construction and sudden abandonment more than 3,000 years ago. Its remains could reveal more about the troubled years of ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered New Kingdom tombs in Luxor, Egypt, revealing insights into Ancient Egyptian history and the roles of high-ranking officials.

A discovery beneath Egypt’s Great Sphinx has further fuelled the theory of there being an ancient ‘underground city’ beneath the pyramids. Those still obsessed with Ancient Egyptian history after it ...

Underwater archaeologists went to explore the Egyptian bay of Abū Qīr just 32 kilometers north east of Alexandria when they stumbled upon the remnants of a sunken military warship. The ship dating ...

CAIRO, June 8 (Xinhua) -- The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on Sunday a number of pharaonic discoveries in Upper Egypt's Luxor Governorate, some of which date back to the ...

Every year brings new discoveries from ancient Egypt and 2024 was no exception. In this countdown, Live Science takes a look at 10 fascinating discoveries from the past year.

Archaeologists uncovered multi-storey dwellings, granaries and a ceremonial road tied to the worship of the cobra goddess ...

SINCE my last communication on the Flora of Ancient Egypt (NATURE, vol. xxviii. p. 109) I have made some interesting new botanical discoveries in connection with the mummies of the twenty-first ...

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city of Abydos dating to about 3,600 years ago during a chaotic period in ...

In another tomb, where the area’s largest statues ever found were discovered, laid the mummy of Fetek, an ancient Egyptian judge and writer. Also discovered at the site were pottery and other ...

Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists ...