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 ...

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 ...

Opium use may have been a “fixture of daily life” for Ancient Egyptians, according to a new study. Experts from the Yale Peabody Museum uncovered traces of the addictive narcotic after becoming ...

Nobody does it like Christopher Nolan. For decades now, he’s been delivering cinematic excellence, sending us to the depths of the cosmos, through multiple dream layers, forward and backwards through ...

The golden coffin of Tutankhamun, the famous pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, has been exhibited in the Grand Egyptian Museum. Tutankhamun ruled during the period of the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt. He ...

Quantitative models show that New Kingdom expeditions in Nubia achieved significant profits, with alluvial mining in streams and the Nile as the most productive sources, challenging previous theories.

In Egypt, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), the largest museum in the world dedicated to ancient Egyptian civilization, was officially opened yesterday. The museum is located near the pyramids in Giza, ...

An American archaeological mission has made a jaw-dropping discovery in the area of the Temple of King Ramesses II in Abydos, Egypt. The team unearthed over 2,000 mummified and decomposed ram heads ...

The incredible golden mask with its dark blue stripes of lapis lazuli and serious young face is probably the most famous ancient artifact in the world. It is instantly recognizable, and the iconic ...

THE collapse of the government of Haile Selassie represents the disappearance of the last stronghold of native imperialism in Africa. There was a time when it was thought that European civilization, ...

Excavations at Tell el-Fara’in in Egypt revealed an ancient city from the final years of the Egyptian empire, which once thrived here, dating back to the 4 th century BCE. Using state-of-the-art ...

View post: How Skiing Builds Serious Strength—and Why Stowe Is the Best Place to Do It in the East Local Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed the never-before-seen tombs of Egyptian officials, the ...