Work out the math on that timeline, and you come to an unexpected conclusion: that Cleopatra lived closer to us today than ...

The UNESCO-protected pyramids, at several sites including Meroe, have survived years of sand, rain, war, and neglect.

Hidden in southeastern Turkey lies one of the most important archaeological discoveries on Earth — a site so old it challenges everything we thought we knew about early civilization. In this video, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Pyramids of Giza, seen here with the Milky Way in the background, are not Egypt's oldest pyramids. Pyramids are iconic symbols ...

History is rather dull and unexciting to most people, which naturally invites exciting flights of fancy that can range from the innocent to outright conspiracies. Nobody truly believes that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A digital reconstruction of a Giza pyramid by Australian insurance company Budget Direct. A digital reconstruction of a Giza ...

It’s been a mystery for millennia. But now, a multinational team of ten researchers hailing from France, Egypt, and China have at last determined how ancient Egyptians transported the massive granite ...