Just weeks after a pharaoh's 3,000-year-old bracelet was stolen, officials in Egypt say an even older piece of art has ...

Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed one of the largest military fortresses ever discovered from the New Kingdom period at Tel Kharruba in North Sinai, revealing sophisticated defensive architecture ...

A recent study offers proof of feasibility for using cosmic radiation detectors to discover underground spaces. The detectors ...

Centuries ago, the Nile River split into two and inadvertently created an island—fulfilling a piece of ancient Egyptian ...

An artwork depicting the seasons of ancient Egypt's farming calendar has gone missing from the famed Saqqara necropolis near ...

Laser plasma device could be light enough to be used on the field.

In a recent study, Dr. Harel Shochat from the University of Haifa and his colleagues analyzed the biological and geographical ...

Five hundred meters east of today’s Nile, in the city of ancient Thebes, rises one of Egypt’s greatest and most enduring ...

According to a China Daily report circulated by this state-funded media outlet, the People's Republic of China is now ...

Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced Saturday the discovery of a New Kingdom period (1550-1069 BC) military ...

A 4,000-year-old pharaonic painting has vanished from Egypt ’s famed Saqqara necropolis, the latest artefact to disappear in mysterious circumstances. At such a critical moment in US history, we need ...

This story appears in the February 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine.