What do we know about the legendary Egyptian King Sesostris? Was he a real person? According to evidence, he was.

A newly identified crocodile relative from Egypt pushes back the origins of the marine-hunting dyrosaurids by millions of years. The fossil, Wadisuchus kassabi, shows a mix of primitive and advanced ...

Long drought cycles reshaped settlement choices in the Indus region. These climate stresses likely contributed to its slow ...

A groundbreaking study has overturned long-held beliefs about the domestication of cats. New DNA evidence shows that domestic ...

Built during Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty, the pyramids on the Giza Plateau has been drawing visitors for thousands of years. The earliest records of tourists dates back to the 5 th century BCE, when Greek ...

Meet Tetinebefou—the wizard-doctor, priest, and royal dentist—whose newly discovered tomb reveals dazzling secrets about ...

Queen Nefertiti co-ruled with Pharaoh Akhenaten, whose reign transformed ancient Egypt's religion and gender roles in the ...

A PLOS ONE paper places Ahmose's reign over Egypt decades after the famous Thera volcanic eruption in the Aegean Sea, with ...

The Assyrian business community also had the first businesswomen and female investors. Generous tax breaks were given to ...

Domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe in the past 2000 years, according to DNA evidence, while in ...

Sophie Okonedo narrates a look at the demise of the Ptolemaic kingdom of ancient Egypt, one of history's most bloodstained ...

Until now, the earliest Egyptians to have even part of their DNA sequenced were three people who lived between 787 and 544 b.c. A team including geneticist Adeline Morez Jacobs of Liverpool John ...