A mysterious Nile party boat discovered in Alexandria’s harbour sheds new light on how people enjoyed leisure in the ancient ...

Underwater archaeologists have stumbled across the remains of a pleasure barge dating from the first half of the 1st century ...

Chemical traces of opium found in an ancient Egyptian alabaster vase shows it had a widespread use. Scientists even think ...

The oldest previously known funeral pyre in the world was discovered in Alaska and dates to approximately 11,500 years ago, but that cremation involved a young child rather than an adult. Some burned ...

Temporary exhibitions of Egyptian antiquities currently touring several countries around the world are achieving remarkable ...

Archaeologists working in the western Nile Delta of Egypt discovered remnants of an "extensive industrial complex" from as far back as the 5th century B.C.E. as well as a Roman cemetery that suggests ...

There are some rather compelling practical reasons why these ancient devices couldn’t have worked as braces anyway. Tests on ...

In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...

The competent court sentenced on Wednesday, Asmaa Zeinhom—the primary defendant in the Egyptian Museum bracelet theft case in ...

Archaeologists uncover evidence of fish processing, metal production and multiple burial methods from the antiquity in Egypt.

Prominent Greek-Russian archaeologist of Pontic descent Victor Sarigiannides is the man who discovered the ancient city of ...