Carved into rock near the village of El-Khawy in southern Egypt, a massive line of ancient hieroglyphs has just been brought ...

A hundred years ago on Friday, a team led by the British archaeologist Howard Carter uncovered a stone step in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. It would lead to the tomb of King Tutankhamun. The find ...

A French Egyptologist says he has deciphered secret messages engraved on a 3,000-year-old Egyptian obelisk built during the reign of Ramses II. The 75-foot-tall stone structure once loomed outside a ...

The gate featuring inscriptions about King Amenemhat I dates back around 3,000 years Ministry of Antiquities An ancient Egyptian gate has been removed from its original site in north Cairo and ...

German archaeologists have uncovered remnants of a temple devoted to King Nectanebo I, who founded the last native Dynasty in ancient Egypt in the fourth century BC. Basalt blocks that were parts of ...

A 1,600-year-old Maya stone tablet describing the rule of an ancient king has been unearthed in the ruins of a temple in Guatemala. The broken tablet, or stela, depicts the king's head, adorned with a ...

Rosetta, a city on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, and has been open to the public at the British Museum since the early 19th century. The YouTube channel TED-Ed explains the history and importance ...

Read almost any of the Maya's ancient writings and it's clear that numbers played a significant role in their culture—there are few documents that don't contain at least some. As you might expect, the ...

Ancient hieroglyphics painted in a stairway near a Maya ambassador's burial tell the tale of his elite but tumultuous life nearly 1,300 years ago, a new study finds. The ambassador, a man named Ajpach ...

On the night of June 24, A.D. 726, a Maya official named Ajpach’ Waal reached the pinnacle of his career. On that day, he was granted an audience with the thirteenth king of Copán, known to scholars ...