How did Egypt build the pyramids? It is a question that has excited the imagination of scholars and visitors for millennia. Now…
This cigar box, containing several wooden splinters that make up a piece of cedar discovered in the Great Pyramid of Giza, was…
A cargo of ancient African ivory recovered from a 16th-century shipwreck is shedding light on early trade networks and historical elephant populations.…
The Saqqara necropolis, located 30km west of Cairo, is home to a wealth of ancient Egyptian tombs and pyramids. The burial ground…
Pharaoh Seqenenre-Taa-II (c.1558–1553 BC) ruled southern Egypt at the end of the 17th Dynasty, during a time when the northern part of…
It is not unknown for children to try to outdo their parents. When it comes to tombs, though, pharaoh Khufu must have…
The discovery of a two-million-year-old skull in South Africa is shedding important new light on microevolution in an early hominin species, as…
As they walked across Engare Sero in northern Tanzania, a group of people left their mark in the soft surface of volcanic…
Archaeologists with the Egyptian-Italian Mission at West Aswan have digitally restored fragments of a very fragile painted leopard’s head from a 2nd…
In 1898, a team led by French archaeologist Victor Loret excavated the tomb of the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Thutmose III. It was…
As the centenary of Howard Carter’s discovery looms, the largest collection of Tutankhamun’s grave goods ever to leave Egypt has embarked on…
Creating images in a changing world Today, it seems hard to imagine that the Sahara was once populated by people with large…