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 ...

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.

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 ...

This redefines “high” society in ancient Egypt. Yale University researchers have found trace amounts of opium jars in an ancient Egyptian vessel, proving that opium use was widespread in the land of ...

Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental. The discovery raises the possibility that King Tut’s famous jars once held ...

When the Amarna Letters were first discovered in Egypt, many scholars thought they were fake. They were not written on papyrus, but clay tablets—a material that wasn’t used in the region. Nor were ...

Florida might seem about as far from modern-day Egypt as possible – and just a few thousand years from the end of the sprawling Ancient Egyptian Empire. However, like many places in the world, Florida ...

A newly analyzed ancient alabaster vase from Yale’s Babylonian Collection has revealed unmistakable traces of opium, challenging long-held assumptions about daily life and ritual in ancient Egypt. The ...

Opium use may have been widespread in ancient Egyptian culture—including potentially among notable kings. Yale researchers found chemical traces of opiates in an ancient alabaster vase at the Peabody ...