The four clay troughs were initially thought to have served as stands for gold-plated staffs. Now, a researcher has presented ...

Just steps from the center of Tikal, a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of modern-day Guatemala, a global team of researchers has unearthed a buried altar that could unlock the secrets of a ...

More than 100 years after the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, new interpretations of the ...

The enormous stone structure, complete with angular steps and flat terraces, looks uncannily like the ruins of a man-made temple — despite being over 10,000 years old.

Archaeologists believe they have discovered the secret of an ancient Egyptian ritual inside King Tutankhamun's tomb.

Cleopatra, and Marc Antony spent time in their decadent love affair on the Greek island of Samos in the summer of 32 B.C.

Introduction Europeans have tried to steal the history of Black Egypt to make it white . The controversial figure they use in this plot is Pharaoh Nana Ramse , whom they succeeded in painting as white ...

New research reveals that not only elites were buried in Egyptian pyramids—laborers may have rested there too.

Scientists have controversially claimed that a vast underground city in Egypt predates the Giza pyramids by tens of thousands ...

Eunapius of Sardis, a Greek historian and rhetorician who lived between the 4th and 5th centuries AD, wrote a Life of the ...

As its name suggests, this ritual is based on the death and resurrection of Osiris, the ancient Egyptian god of the underworld. It is also possible that the staffs and vessels were used for a ...