An important ancient Roman carved marble head and shoulders portrait bust of Lucius Septimius Severus has just sold at Toovey ...

The Great Sphinx of Giza has stood guard over the desert for thousands of years. Carved from limestone and towering beside ...

A joint archaeological mission has discovered the tomb of Prince Waser-If-Re, son of King Userkaf, in Egypt's Saqqara ...

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

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

A huge false door made out of pink granite uncovered the tomb of an Ancient Egyptian prince dating back over 4,000 years, ...

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

Sacred carvings etched into a 3,300-year-old Egyptian obelisk may finally have been deciphered, thanks to the work of French ...

An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered ... he decided to search museum collections for every ...

Do you love reading historical books, and this year do you plan to visit some historical places? Then explore ancient Egypt, which is full of history books and videos featuring towering pyramids.

The sun-baked flats of southern Peru hold a secret bigger than any signpost. From a low ridge, the landscape looks plain enough – just ocher earth and scattered stones. Yet from the air, pale etchings ...

The Valley of the Kings and other bucket-list Egyptian destinations offer a glimpse into millennia-old majesty and artistry Smithsonian Photo Contest Galleries Text by Jeff Campagna and Tracy ...