Neanderthals living just 70 kilometers apart in Israel may have had different food prep customs, according to new research on butchered animal bones. These subtle variations — like how meat was cut ...

A discovery in Egypt has provided an extraordinary glimpse into the ancient art of winemaking. Archaeologists recently ...

It’s not every day that archaeologists stumble upon a 4,000-year-old pyramid, let alone one that’s been sealed since antiquity. But in the heart of Egypt’s ancient royal necropolis of Dahshur, that’s ...

Our readers delve back millennia to answer this one, looking at the ancient Sumerians, the Babylonians and the Egyptians to ...

New research suggests the engraving, which shows an elite individual sitting in a boat, may be up to 5,100 years old ...

Archaeology has long been kind to the men (and women) who raised Egypt’s stone marvels. Burial shafts beside the Giza ...

The "intriguing new" rock engraving was found on the west bank of the Nile River near Aswan in November 2022, during a survey ...

Sam Kean has gone back in time, at least in practice, for his new book "Dinner with King Tut." He talks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about "experimental archeology" and learning about ancient cultures.

Buried in a Pot, Preserved by Time: Ancient Egyptian Skeleton Yields First Full Genome DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton reveals ancestry links between North Africa and the Fertile Crescent.

The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at ...

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented insight about the ancestry of a man who lived during the time when the ...

A 3,000-year-old limestone anchor bearing a Cypro-Minoan inscription was discovered at Tel Dor, Israel, offering evidence of ...