New sites and artifacts are found all the time, revealing forgotten secrets of the past. Learn more about some recent discoveries: In Egypt, a massive stone block weighing about 40,000 pounds was ...

yet they were simpler than the beautiful pictorial Egyptian script on the temple walls. The Petries recognized the signs as an alphabet, though decoding the letters would take another decade ...

A newly deciphered letter home dating back around 1,800 years reveals the pleas of a young Egyptian soldier named Aurelius Polion who was serving, probably as a volunteer, in a Roman legion in ...

The letter echoed recent statements by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on the proposal, in which he said Egypt cannot participate in displacing the Palestinian people, describing the ...