Ancient Egyptian pyramids, thought to contain only the elite, may also hold low-class laborers 2,200-year-old mysterious pyramid structure filled with coins and weapons found near Dead Sea ...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient necropolis near the Nile River have uncovered a 3,500-year-old burial site of a ...

Egypt's antiquities department announced Wednesday the discovery of a 3,500-year-old settlement in a desert oasis, showing the existence of vibrant desert trade routes that stretched from the Me ...

A joint American-Egyptian research team led by John Coleman Darnell from Yale University discovered the works at an ancient site in Egypt's Eastern Desert—part of ... the archaeologists also ...

To many, ancient Egypt is synonymous with the pharaohs and pyramids of the Dynastic period starting about 3,100 BC. Yet long before that—about 9,300 to 4,000 BC—enigmatic Neolithic peoples ...

In the millennia that followed, the climate dried out, leaving the Sahara Desert. Today, Egypt gets little precipitation throughout the year. It’s surrounded by desert on three sides, with the ...

For years, fish fossils have turned up in the deserts of western Egypt, and nobody could explain why. Now we know: Long ago, the Egyptian desert was home to a body of water the size of Lake Michigan.

Over the last two decades, John Coleman Darnell and his wife, Deborah, hiked and drove caravan tracks west of the Nile from the monuments of Thebes, at present-day Luxor. These and other desolate ...

A large ancient Egyptian fortress in the northern Sinai Desert had an elaborate landscape of 500 trees leading to its entrance more than 2,000 years ago, new excavations reveal.

This Egyptian Desert Oasis Is a Destination Most Travelers Skip — and That's Exactly Why You Should Go. In Egypt’s Western Desert, the ancient oasis of Siwa is home to one of the world’s ...

Luxor Temple, also on the east bank, is considered Amun-Ra's harem and is to me the most beautiful temple of all, lit up in the evening like a dream of ancient Egypt. It got an hour and a half ...

A large ancient Egyptian fortress in the northern Sinai Desert had an elaborate landscape of 500 trees leading to its entrance more than 2,000 years ago, new excavations reveal.