The Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom (2686–2125 B.C.) produced many lasting artefacts—but little DNA has survived. Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have finally exposed the full layout of a long-suspected “sun temple” complex, turning a century-old ...

New research shows Karnak Temple was built on a rare island of high ground formed as Nile river channels shifted thousands of ...

Flying to see the Great Giza Pyramids in Egypt isn't as cheap as a quick destination trip, but once you're on the ground the ...

The biggest archaeological discoveries of 2025 reveal lost cities, royal tombs, and breakthroughs reshaping history.

In recent years, Egyptologists’ understanding of the period of stability and prosperity that emerged at the end of the 4th millennium B.C.E. known as the Old Kingdom has begun to change. Excavations ...

An enormous ancient Egyptian sun temple from the Fifth Dynasty has been excavated by an Italian archaeological team.

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom — A 4,000-year-old handprint has been discovered on a clay model used for offerings in an Ancient Egyptian tomb. Researchers at Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum, in ...

Researchers have discovered a 4,000-year-old handprint on an ancient Egyptian tomb offering, which will appear at a museum exhibit in the United Kingdom this October, reported CBS News partner BBC ...

An artwork depicting the seasons of the ancient Egyptian calendar has gone missing from the famed Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. A British mission working in the tomb discovered that the piece had ...

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human genome sequence from ancient Egypt. The remains are 4,800 to 4,500 years old ...