A team of Egyptian students was among five from Africa shortlisted for this year’s Earth Prize, which recognizes the efforts of 13- to 19-year-olds offering innovative solutions to pressing ...

Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed a sealed packet of the epic poem resting atop a Roman-era mummy, suggesting they may have ...

Wed 6, 1pm: “History Hash Outs—Between the Mad and the Bad: Psychiatrists and Patients in Egypt’s State Asylums” talk presented by Yasmin Shafei, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre D'etudes Et De ...

This mechanical dog from Ancient Egypt is one of the cutest finds from the Ancient World.

​The inland taipan, nicknamed the “fierce snake,” is widely thought to be one of the most venomous land snakes on Earth. Its ...

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” stuck to its abdomen, in a first-of-its-kind discovery.

Work out the math on that timeline, and you come to an unexpected conclusion: that Cleopatra lived closer to us today than she did to the construction of the pyramids. To her, they were already ...

Dogs are our best pals, not only today, but throughout history, they have also shared a special bond with royalty, nobility, ...

A Roman‑era tomb in Egypt’s Minya Governorate has yielded bizarrely ordained mummies, rare papyri, and artifacts that ...