As the official story of Cleopatra's death goes, the Egyptian queen locked herself in a mausoleum in Alexandria on an August day in 30 B.C.E. and sent for a venomous snake. After she received an asp, ...

Belgian authorities on Friday said they had handed over a roughly 2,000-year-old sarcophagus to Egypt, a decade after it was ...

Belgium returns a 2,000-year-old Ptolemaic sarcophagus to Egypt after a decade-long investigation, marking a major act of ...

The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

Nefertari was the beloved wife of Rameses II, and her extravagant tomb proves it. Its restored paintings tell an interesting ...

20th Century Studios and 21 Laps Entertainment are working on a Night at the Museum remake and Shawn Levy will return as ...

Complete with vampires, werewolves, mummies and more, “The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful” opens July 10 at the San ...

Anomalies in glial cell density and corpus callosum diameter raise questions about their role in Einstein’s remarkable ...

Nine steps down a stone staircase in Egypt’s Aga Khan Mausoleum, archaeologists discovered a host of hieroglyphic ...

An archaeologist performs restorations on the sarcophagus of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the restoration lab of the Grand Egyptian ...

Greek and Roman rock-cut tombs discovered near Aswan’s Aga Khan Mausoleum offer new insights into burial customs in ancient ...

For the first time, scientists decoded a complete genome from a 4,800-year-old Egyptian, revealing surprising Middle Eastern ...