Jul 2, 2025 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has sequenced the whole genome from an adult male Egyptian who lived between over 4,500 years ago — a few centuries...

Feb 17, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists from the American University in Cairo and elsewhere say they have found an almost complete skull of the hyaenodont Bastetodon syrtos in...

Jan 17, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur based on depictions of the now-destroyed specimen from...

Nov 26, 2024 by News Staff

Archaeologists say they have unearthed an entrance to a large stone temple in the ancient Egyptian town of Athribis, near to the modern city of Sohag. The...

Oct 25, 2024 by News Staff

Esna is a city located approximately 60 km south of the ancient capital of Luxor in Egypt. The holy barque with the shrine of Khnoum, the main deity of...

Aug 6, 2024 by News Staff

The Pyramid of Djoser, also known as the Step Pyramid, is considered the oldest of the seven monumental pyramids built about 4,500 years ago. Map of the...

May 21, 2024 by News Staff

Archaeologists in Egypt have identified segments of a 64-km-long extinct branch of the river Nile, which they name the Ahramat Branch, running at the foothills...

Nov 16, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Gezer is an ancient southern Levantine city well-known from Egyptian, Biblical and Assyrian sources, associated with power struggles, conquests, and intriguing...

Oct 10, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered hundreds of 5,000-year-old wine jars — some of which are still intact and contain traces of ancient wine —...

Sep 28, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Sahure, also known as Sahura, was the second ruler of ancient Egypt’s Fifth Dynasty (c. 2465 – c. 2325 BCE). The pyramid of Sahure at Abusir, Egypt. The...

Sep 7, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of titanosaurian dinosaur being named Igai semkhu has been described by Midwestern University paleontologist Eric Gorscak and his...

Aug 10, 2023 by News Staff

The newly-identified species of basilosaurid whale has been named Tutcetus rayanensis after the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun. This new species...

May 30, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Egypt has no domestic silver ore sources and silver is rarely found in the Egyptian archaeological record until the Middle Bronze Age. Bracelets found...

Mar 6, 2023 by News Staff

Khufu’s Pyramid is one of the largest archaeological monuments all over the world, which still holds many mysteries. In 2016 and 2017, the ScanPyramids...

Oct 6, 2022 by News Staff

During excavations at the ancient Hellenistic-Roman port of Berenike on the Red Sea coast of Egypt, an international team of archaeologists has documented...

Jul 28, 2022 by News Staff

According to archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority, this bronze drachm was struck at the mint of Alexandria in Egypt by the Roman emperor...

Jun 8, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have unearthed a well-preserved cervical vertebra of a medium-sized abelisaurid ceratosaur in the Bahariya Oasis of the Western Desert...

May 18, 2022 by News Staff

Archaeologists have uncovered a series of vibrantly-colored frescoes in an ancient temple at Esna, Egypt, located about 60 km south of the ancient Egyptian...

Feb 3, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists from the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Tübingen and the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities...

Apr 13, 2021 by News Staff

An international team of archaeologists has uncovered a 3,300-year-old city in the southern province of Luxor in Egypt. The 3,300-year-old ruins of Aten...