Several ancient lost cities, including imperial capitals and religious centres, remain undiscovered, their locations still ...

Waššukanni has never been found and some scholars think that it may be located in northeastern Syria. The people who lived in ...

The name of this place means “the town or city of Judah,” and it belonged to the Babylonian Empire. Its existence is known ...

The Black Pyramid was meant to secure a pharaoh’s legacy for eternity. Instead, it exposed serious flaws in ancient Egyptian engineering and planning. Built on unstable ground and rushed by ambition, ...

The Benben stone is an object that is found in the mythology of ancient Egypt. This mythical stone is said to have once been housed in a shrine within the compounds of the temple dedicated to the ...

A colorfully painted tomb dating to Egypt’s New Kingdom of the 18th Dynasty has been discovered in Luxor. Called the ‘Tomb of Amenhotep’, experts say it belonged to a nobleman and temple guardian for ...

Principal source: Papyrus Millingen, copied by A Peyron in 1843, but now lost. This manuscript is dated by its handwriting to the second half of the Eighteenth Dynasty. It has been used in Egyptology ...