Sep 4, 2015 by News Staff

According to a paper that will be published in the November issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science, ancient Egyptians bred raptors as offerings...

May 29, 2015 by News Staff

A new genomic analysis of people currently living in Egypt and Ethiopia suggests that Eurasians originated when early Africans moved north – through...

Apr 14, 2015 by News Staff

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have found a large number of Egyptian artifacts and pottery vessels dating back to the Late...

Mar 7, 2015 by News Staff

A team of archaeologists from the French-Egyptian Centre for the Study of Karnak Temples has made a new discovery near the temple of Ptah at Karnak, Luxor,...

Jan 31, 2015 by News Staff

A unique 2,500-year-old wall relief showing an unidentified pharaoh and two deities, a rare depiction of obelisks being cut and loaded onto boats, and...

Jan 25, 2015 by Sergio Prostak

A group of ornithologists led by Dr Manuel Schweizer from the Natural History Museum of Bern in Switzerland has described a new cryptic species of owl...

Jan 10, 2015 by News Staff

Archaeologists from the Min Project have discovered an ancient reproduction of Osireion in Theban Necropolis, an area of the west bank of the Nile, opposite...

Sep 15, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists from the United States and Egypt have described a new species of anthracothere that lived in Africa during Miocene, 19 million years ago,...

Sep 9, 2014 by News Staff

A team of scientists led by Dr Thilo Gross of the University of Bristol has combined depictions of lions, wild dogs, elephants and other creatures from...

Sep 6, 2014 by News Staff

Dr Roberta Mazza at the University of Manchester’s John Rylands Research Institute has discovered what she says is the world’s oldest surviving document...

Jun 19, 2014 by Enrico de Lazaro

Prof Olaf Kaper, an archaeologist at Leiden University in the Netherlands, believes he may have solved one of the greatest mysteries in ancient history...

May 1, 2014 by News Staff

Spanish and French archaeologists excavating at the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus have discovered what could be one of the earliest known images...

May 1, 2014 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the journal Physical Review Letters, ancient Egyptians used a simple trick to make it easier to transport heavy colossi...

Feb 5, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists have described a new extinct genus and two fossil species of the bat family Myzopodidae from several fossilized jawbones and teeth discovered...

Feb 4, 2014 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of researchers has unearthed a 4,600-year-old small step pyramid at the archaeological site of al-Ghonemiya near the modern town...

Oct 8, 2013 by News Staff

A mysterious black pebble found by an Egyptian geologist at the Libyan Desert Glass strewnfield provides the first ever evidence of a comet entering Earth’s...

Jun 4, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Tel Aviv University researchers have found that the ancient Egyptians developed unique system of volume measurement based on sphere units. A Phoenician...

Dec 2, 2011 by James Freeman

Archaeologists from the Mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt have discovered unknown Coptic city dating back to the fourth century CE,...