An ancient skyscraper considered the seventh wonder of the world crumbled to ruin centuries ago. Now an ambitious ...

After using the "Relative Erosion Method" to uncover how old the Great Pyramid of Giza is, Alberto Donini suggests it may date to 22916 B.C.E.

Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park near Ely is one of those magnificent secrets that makes you wonder how something so ...

Her face is iconic, but her story was nearly erased. Dive deep into the lost legacy of Nefertiti, who rose from Great Royal Wife to co-pharaoh—and then vanished from history. We investigate her hidden ...

From Raiders of the Lost Ark to The Mummy, these movies will transport you down the Nile and thousands of years into the past ...

Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city.

One of the most explicit pieces of evidence for the empire that Argos once ruled comes from the writings of Herodotus, a fifth-century BCE Greek historian. In The Histories 1.82, he wrote the ...

The expansion of one of the Mediterranean’s strongest powers wasn’t only driven by conquest, but also infrastructure. By borrowing techniques from the Greeks and the Etruscans, Romans engineered ...

An ancient Egyptian papyrus has captured the attention of scholars and believers alike, as it appears to describe events remarkably similar to the biblical ten plagues of Egypt. The document, known as ...