Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ...

Sifting through the tan dirt of northern Iraq, archaeologists looked at the remnants of an ancient empire’s capital city.

Egypt has received 25 ancient artifacts from the US after a three-year legal and diplomatic effort involving U.S. authorities ...

Archaeologists have excavated an intricately carved and painted tomb in northern ... a physician who served ancient Egyptian kings as an expert in medicinal plants, dentistry and venomous bites.

Hieroglyphics carved on the famous ancient Egyptian Obelisk in Paris could be propaganda praising pharaoh Ramesses II as ordained by the gods. The obelisk was apparently commissioned by Ramesses II, ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

The first-ever example of an ancient Egyptian petroglyph depicting a zodiac sign has been discovered at a rock art site on the western bank of the Nile. Consisting of a crudely engraved creature ...

The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ‘sacred carving ... everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation.

Archaeologists in Jordan have documented a carved inscription bearing the name of Ramesses III, an Egyptian pharaoh who reigned around 3,200 years ago, Jordan's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...