King Djoser of Egypt ordered his chief architect, Imhotep, to design a tomb like no other - The Step Pyramid of Djoser.

The National Geographic magazine announced that the Pyramids Half Marathon has topped its list of the most amazing running ...

The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

Over the last 20 years, genetic research has changed dramatically. An explosion of genomic data has reshaped how we ...

Tomb art suggests the sky goddess Nut from ancient Egypt might reveal the oldest depiction of our galaxy.

From Peru to Egypt, tourists can actively participate in digs, preservation projects, or workshops led by experts in the ...

The Nile River is the most astonishing river cruise destination in the world, and Luxor has some of its biggest and best sights.

A new theory suggests the biblical Garden of Eden could be hidden beneath Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza, challenging ...

Konstantin Borisov, a computer engineer, proposed a new theory about the location of the biblical Garden of Eden, suggesting ...

The expert claims, after consulting a reconstructed map of the Earth in 500 B.C., "it ... can only be the Great Pyramid of Giza." "In ancient cultures, Egyptian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian ...

Re (also spelled Ra) was a sun god in ancient Egypt. The giant false door, which is made of pink granite, is about 14.8 feet (4.5 meters) high and 3.8 feet (1.2 m) wide, the Egyptian Ministry of ...

Wine has a potent place in ancient Greek culture and myth ... Then he served wine to all the other gods, starting on the left, pouring sweet nectar from the mixing-bowl.” So far, over 100 ...