How did Egypt build the pyramids? It is a question that has excited the imagination of scholars and visitors for millennia. Now…
Egyptian birds were expected to live on in the afterlife, just like their human counterparts, according to new research published in the…
Working at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, André Veldmeijer and Salima Ikram came across an old photograph illustrating a forgotten collection of…
He founded the Oriental Institute in Chicago, was the first American to achieve a doctorate in Egyptology, and his book is an…
Handaxes and flakes recovered from the shores of Lake Turkana, in the remote north- western part of Kenya, are being hailed as…
A multi-million dollar project to help preserve Luxor’s world-famous temples has resumed after being delayed for nine months by the Egyptian revolution.…
The discovery of two art toolkits, dating to 100,000 years ago, in a south African cave, show early humans were capable of…
As the Arab Spring flooded through Egypt’s Tahrir Square, the old political order was swept away – and with it went Egyptology’s…
Archaeologist Sarah Parcak, who teaches at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, admits to being astonished by her own achievement: ‘I couldn’t…
The results of a major study of early hominid teeth suggest that our male ancestors tended to stick around close to where…
This is an excellent account of the rise and fall of a great ancient civilisation. It starts in Phoenicia and describes the…
The present uprising in Libya has focused the world’s attention on the region. But this part of North Africa has a troubled…
Packed in a crate with artefacts from the Middle East, the eery figures arrived in Montreal, Canada, in the mid 1950s. A…