I am the eighth generation here,” says Ahmed Ali Mohammed Elhofni, standing amid pale stone dust in his family-owned ...

More than two centuries after it unlocked the language of the ancient Egyptians, the Rosetta Stone remains at the centre of an unresolved global debate, as renewed calls grow louder for its ...

A new and important archaeological discovery comes from Egypt, where an Italian mission is bringing to light the remains of ...

We walk you through the incestuous, murderous, and surprisingly relatable world of Egyptian deities at The Met.

An enormous ancient Egyptian sun temple from the Fifth Dynasty has been excavated by an Italian archaeological team.

Arthur Evans, the archaeologist who excavated the ancient Minoan palace of Knossos in Crete, exported artifacts he discovered back to Britain.

Archeologists have unearthed the remains of a 4,500-year-old Egyptian temple where visitors would sky-gaze while on the roof.

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated. Can new technology help scholars rewrite history?

Yuri Knorozov's seminal 1963 work, "The Writing of the Maya Indians," cracked the code of how to decipher Mayan writing. (TASS) It’s 1952, and Western archaeologists are trekking through lush Central ...

A review of how ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics were first translated 200 years ago, and a look at the archaeological work now being done in Egypt to understand one of the empire’s most important ...

What do you know about Ancient Egypt, Pandas? I'll be honest – my personal knowledge pretty much begins and ends with the 1999 classic "The Mummy." And it's a shame, since the film is not historically ...

Egypt’s antiquities authority has announced a complete hieroglyphic copy of the Canopus Decree from Tell El-Pharaeen in Husseiniya, Sharqiya. The sandstone stela, a carved stone slab used for public ...