Several tombs in the necropolises of Egypt depict figures dancing across the walls and playing instruments. But when ...

The location was undoubtedly chosen due to its clear visual link to the capital at Inebu-Hedj with its temple of Ptah, one of the most important deities in Old Kingdom period, and the position between ...

A rare discovery of a tomb from ancient Egypt's Middle Kingdom near Luxor may hold several generations from a single family.

During the Middle Kingdom (c. 2040-1782 BCE), Egypt rebounded from the First Intermediate Period to build a strong and stable ...

an ancient kingdom on the Arabian Peninsula whose rock-carved "Treasury" featured in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade." However, the elaborate temple was later buried with a mix of concrete and ...

Buried beneath it, he says, is a pyramid. In 700-800 C.E., the ancient Maya would ascend a stairway to a temple at the pyramid’s top to offer gifts and sacrifices to the kingdom’s patron deity.

With the discovery of the first of its tombs, South Asasif is now part of the necropolis of the Theban Middle Kingdom ... uncovered a 4,000-year-old dagger in Italy and said it might give ...