When Howard Carter peered through a small opening in the Valley of the Kings in 1922, he wasn’t just looking at gold that had ...

Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental.

Yale University researchers have found trace amounts of opium jars in an ancient Egyptian vessel, proving that opium use was ...

King Tutankhamun’s tomb is the smallest royal burial in the Valley of the Kings — and one of the strangest. Its layout breaks with tradition, and only a single chamber was ever decorated. By ...

For more than a century, a cluster of alabaster jars from the burial of Tutankhamun sat in museum cases as some of the most puzzling objects from the boy king’s tomb. Now a new wave of scientific ...

Egypt is a staple on many travel bucket lists, largely because it is home to the Pyramids of Giza—the only surviving site ...

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

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Egyptian authorities have pulled back the curtain on the repaired statues, described as 'one of the most important landmarks ...

The newly excavated 4,500-year-old valley temple from ancient Egypt holds a "public calendar" and a roof for astronomical observation.

Twas night before Christmas when all through the de Young Museum, not a person was stirring, not even a mouse... until ...

We've ranked the most interesting archaeological finds of all time, ranging from the intricate ruins of Machu Picchu to the ...