New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets ...

Archaeologists working near Luxor announced a bevy of new finds they believe could “reconstruct history” thanks to the wealth ...

Egyptian officials recently announced the discovery of a tomb belonging to a doctor who treated pharaohs. The 4,100-year-old ...

The manuscript, titled “A Sequence of Sermons for Sundays and Saints’ Days” and written by Sahagún between 1540 and 1563.

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the 4,100-year-old tomb of a highly skilled physician who served the pharaohs of ...

Samples of the Black Death, which wiped out as many as 50 million people in medieval Europe, have been found in an ancient Egyptian mummy. The pandemic, also known as bubonic plague, spread ...

A centuries-old Buddhist model of the universe has new meaning for the shortest of days and longest of worries. By Holland Cotter The Metropolitan Museum of Art is, in these darkest days of ...

"My hands are not stained with anyone's blood, nor have I stolen anyone's money," Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi told military leaders and journalists a week after Bashar al-Assad's fall ...

Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists ...

Egyptian authorities have arrested two men for attempting to steal hundreds of ancient artifacts from the bottom of the sea, the country’s interior ministry said in a Monday statement.

Thanks to recent analysis, however, researchers believe they have confirmed the first known plague case outside Eurasia: a 3,290-year-old, ancient Egyptian mummy. Y. pestis, also known as the ...

IMF staff and the Egyptian authorities have reached staff-level agreement on the fourth review under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement. Subject to approval by the Executive Board, Egypt ...