Archaeologists have successfully rediscovered Alexandria on the Tigris, a major ancient metropolis founded by Alexander the ...

What was the political and economic importance of the ancient city Alexandria on the Tigris? How was the city laid out? And ...

The city of Naucratis was the earliest ancient Greek colony in Egypt that served as the connecting and trading post between ...

An immersive exhibition exploring the life of Cleopatra will open in London in March 2026, using holograms, virtual reality ...

An ancient skyscraper considered the seventh wonder of the world crumbled to ruin centuries ago. Now an ambitious ...

Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian, and her family's shocking history is the key to her power. Trace her royal lineage back to Alexander the Great himself and uncover the web of ambition, palace intrigue, and ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

Bitcoin is here and it's generating interest. Is that a good or bad thing? Dan and Neil discuss the pros and cons of this ...

In a landmark NBC News special, anchor Lester Holt traces the footsteps of history's most ambitious leader on his path to immortality. New evidence from Egyptian temples reveals how Alexander the ...

Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt represented by Athena and Isis, respectively, is a late 19th-century symbolist Art Nouveau mural by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt symbolizing the relation of the two ...

At first, the team thought they had found a woman’s tomb at the end of the 30-foot-long corridor filled nearly to the ceiling with fallen rock and flood debris. As they excavated the tomb chamber, ...

CAIRO — A boat belonging to an Egyptian pharaoh is being assembled in full view at the Grand Egyptian Museum’s exhibition hall. Staff began piecing together the cedarwood boat, one of two that were ...