The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo, has been delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises and a pandemic. At long last, here’s a look inside.

It was home to as many as 7,000 people, vast temple complexes, and an imposing stone rampart visible from ... the Hittites cut storage ponds into Hattuşa’s hillsides. Dug into clay soil to ...

London, a city where history and innovation intertwine, boasts an unrivaled collection of museums that captivate and edu ...

Travelers visiting Egypt have long marveled at the vestiges of the pharaohs’ lost world—the great pyramids, ancient temples and mysterious writings carved into stone. But Egyptology ...

Tax freedom and hieroglyphs. In 1799, when Napoleon Bonepart was in the middle of his Egyptian campaign, one of his soldiers found a large black stone in the Nile Delta near the town of Rashid ...

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery ...

A recent archaeological discovery in Ukraine has rewritten the timeline for when human beings began using ivory to construct ...

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

(Pahoehoe’s Scrabble-friendly cousin aa—a sort of knee-high stone popcorn—is also plentiful ... The gravel road cut through the simplest ecosystem of all: the rippling brownie-batter plains ...

The walls of Medinet Habu are covered in beautifully preserved hieroglyphs, depicting the victories, rituals, and divine connections of Ramesses III in stunning detail. Royalty-free licenses let you ...

The hieroglyphic script remained the anchor of writing in Egypt from the first writing in the late fourth millennium BC until the Roman Period. Its full forms, following the principles of formal ...