The plague theory emerged primarily from ancient texts rather than physical evidence. Hittite plague prayers from the late 14th century BC describe a devastating epidemic that allegedly originated ...

A sweeping new geoarchaeological study has revealed how Egypt’s famed Karnak Temple complex rose from an island amid Nile ...

At Shanghai’s “On Top of the Pyramid: The Civilization of Ancient Egypt” exhibition, a meaningful portion of that total ...

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

In Hades 2, the waking phrase for this aspect is spoken by Circe: "I see you guarding graves of mortals passed into the black ...

Movies are among the most powerful drivers of pop culture, which is why the images and ideas they present often leave a ...

The most comprehensive geoarchaeological survey of Egypt’s Karnak Temple complex has been carried out by an international ...

Researchers have carried out the most comprehensive geoarchaeological survey of Egypt's Karnak Temple near Luxor—one of the ...

Now, Franck Goddio, the French underwater archaeologist who rediscovered Thonis-Heracleion, says the 82-foot-long (25-meter-long) military ship was discovered in the major canal that flowed along the ...

Archaeologists reveal that Egypt’s Karnak Temple was built on a 3,000-year-old natural island formed by the Nile, linking mythology with engineering and landscape.

Our next adventure took us to Aswan, the gateway to Egypt’s mystical south. We boarded a super-fast night train, gliding ...