Dramatic new discoveries in the ancient Egytptian ... wall and was greeted by a god’s gleaming eyes: a small, painted statue of the composite funerary deity Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, with a golden ...

The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a "major" 3,400-year-old town dating to the New Kingdom that was ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

A major anniversary makes this the perfect time to discover Egypt's ancient treasures for yourself.

Discovered in the ruins of Tikal, the altar sheds light on strained relations between the Maya city and Teotihuacán—which was located more than 600 miles away ...

At the ancient necropolis of Anubis Mountain, the massive 3,600-year-old tomb of a pharaoh was found. The discovery will ...

No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the ...

The lower part of the statue, which depicts King Ramesses II, one of ancient Egypt's most powerful rulers, was found in 1930.