For the first time, scientists decoded a complete genome from a 4,800-year-old Egyptian, revealing surprising Middle Eastern ancestry and fresh evidence of ancient migration between Egypt and ...

The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

A rock art panel near Aswan, Egypt, may depict a rare example of an elite individual from the First Dynasty, shedding light ...

Scans reveal a huge shaft, which is surrounded by a spiral-like staircase that descends from the centre of the Sphinx’s base ...

New secret chambers have been uncovered inside a 4,400-year-old ancient Egyptian pyramid. When many of us think of Egypt, the iconic landscape of the ancient pyramids is one of the first things that ...

The mystery of an 'underground city' beneath Egypt's pyramids has intensified after scientists revealed a new discovery below ...

A joint Egyptian-German mission has made an unprecedented discovery of eight previously undocumented storage chambers – or magazines – within Sahure’s Pyramid in the Abusir Necropolis south ...

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 ...

Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the teeth of a remarkably well-preserved skeleton found in a sealed funeral pot in ...

Rishika Sharma shares what it’s like inside. On my last visit to Egypt, you could drive right up to the Great Pyramid. Today, a hop-on/hop-off bus loops around a newly built visitor centre. You can ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a lost city in Peru that thrived 3,500 years ago, likely as a potential contemporary of early ...

Nearby, a red-rumped agouti — a South American rodent that looks like a large, long-legged guinea pig — scuttled behind a tree trunk. A few feet away, an Arabian sand cat put its paw inside a log to ...