Oldest gym membership written in Greek on papyrus 1,800 years ago reveals structured athletic life in Roman Egypt.

The power of Ramses III spread over key routes and was marked by rock inscriptions in his name—one has been found in Wadi Rum ...

Egypt, and the Near East during the Bronze Age. The research, based on the analysis of 17 glass beads recovered from archaeological sites in Alicante and Albacete, sheds light on the complex exchange ...

The words and musical notations to this obscure sacred song, penned in Greek on a tattered papyrus fragment ... with non-Christians in ancient Greece and Egypt, said Dickson.

A newly discovered settlement in the north-western Nile delta was built by the Egyptian New Kingdom perhaps 3500 years ago ...

A new study suggests this 3,600-year-old vial unearthed in Iran may be the oldest red lipstick ever found. The lipstick ...

Two decades after construction began, the Grand Egyptian Museum, which houses more than 100,000 ancient treasures, will host ...

When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...

Ancient Egypt’s most significant religious complex has an accumulation of 2000 years of architecture of astonishing size. The Great Hypostyle Hall with its soaring papyrus-style pillars is awesome.

Archaeologists say Nitzan picked up an ancient Canaanite ... During the Middle Bronze Age, scarabs were used as seals and amulets, as Daphna Ben-Tor, curator of Egyptian archaeology at the ...