Mouse collector, deity, messenger of Satan, or beloved family member. The history of the cat is long and marked by ups and ...

This May, during a visit to Sir John Soane's Museum in central London, I had the pleasure of receiving a private tour of the sarcophagus of Seti I, arguably the most important ancient Egyptian ...

A large mushroom farm near Nairobi is producing mycelium for building materials that end up as fungi-based panels, which are ...

"Divine Egypt," a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, features nearly 250 artifacts representing the rich ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 3,500-year-old military fortress with a zigzag-style wall in the north Sinai Desert of Egypt ...

Egyptian archaeologists in North Sinai have discovered a more than 3,000-year-old fortress that once defended an ancient ...

Hidden beneath the sands of Egypt's Giza Plateau, three precisely engineered shafts have been rediscovered that may unlock access to a vast underground network whispered about by ancient Greek ...

Archaeologists uncover 59 sealed mummy coffins at Saqqara, Egypt, many believed to hold the remains of ancient priests. This ...

Archaeologists identified the tomb owners by reading titles carved on walls and lintels. The names are Amun-em-Ipet from the ...

The site’s design was built to adapt to the unique peninsula site and environment, utilizing features like zigzagging walls.

During a remarkably warm period 400,000 years ago, early humans living near what is now Rome regularly butchered massive straight-tusked elephants, using both their meat and bones as vital resources ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...