At the end of the Bronze Age, a series of upheavals affected many civilizations across the eastern Mediterranean. Among the ...

One such extraordinary artifact is an intriguing Egyptian tablet that has sparked intense debate among researchers and alternative historians alike. By mainstream archaeologists’ assessment, this ...

What would change if Egypt and the US switched locations? This video examines that question through a simple but intriguing ...

Egypt is a place where history is actually brought back to life among children. When kids stand in front of a pyramid that is ...

The intricate mysteries of ancient Egyptian mummification are being unraveled at Semmelweis University in Hungary, where researchers have employed a state-of-the-art photon-counting CT scanner to ...

This pharaoh wanted everyone to know it, too. Ramses II was responsible for many massive architectural projects across the ...

When the Hungarian National Museum Public Collection Center's Semmelweis Museum of Medical History in Budapest was founded in ...

It might have been mummy’s favorite bedtime story. Archaeologists found part of Homer’s “The Iliad” stuffed inside a ...

I returned to my family home in Liguria this year to celebrate Easter—a day that, for most Italians, is synonymous with ...

The theory that East Africa is the most likely birthplace for human beings has persisted over many years. A new find, however, from a part of Egypt not extensively studied before, is raising doubts ...

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

Archaeologists discovered the largest trove of ostraca—inscriptions on broken pottery sherds—ever found, with over 43,000 ...