Yale University researchers have found trace amounts of opium jars in an ancient Egyptian vessel, proving that opium use was ...

Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental.

People view a shrine of Tutankhamun at the King Tutankhamun exhibition hall of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, Egypt, on ...

This December marks just over a century since one of the most breath-holding moments in archaeological history — the day in 1922 when Howard Carter first gazed into the long-sealed tomb of Tutankhamun ...

There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their ...

The newly excavated 4,500-year-old valley temple from ancient Egypt holds a "public calendar" and a roof for astronomical observation.

Egypt is a staple on many travel bucket lists, largely because it is home to the Pyramids of Giza—the only surviving site ...

Egypt continued to establish its position as the capital of global archaeological discoveries, after the prestigious American Journal of Archaeology selected the tomb of King Thutmose II on the West ...

New analysis of Amarna period artifacts suggests that before Tutankhamun took the throne as a child, two of Akhenaten’s ...

A treasure trove of 225 funerary figurines has been discovered inside a tomb in the ancient Egyptian capital of Tanis in the ...