The site’s design was built to adapt to the unique peninsula site and environment, utilizing features like zigzagging walls.

For centuries, Cleopatra VII's final resting place has remained a mystery. Recent discoveries at Egypt’s Taposiris Magna ...

Archaeologists say they've discovered an ancient, long-submerged Mediterranean port, but for the head of the mission, the ...

Archaeologists have unearthed in Egypt a long-lost Nile city containing homes, factories, and a ceremonial “causeway.” Scientists working in the eastern Nile Delta discovered an entire city beneath a ...

In 1997, Elizabeth Bolman, the Elsie B. Smith Professor in the Liberal Arts and chair of the Department of Art History and Art, entered a forgotten late fifth-century church at a remote site in Upper ...

Historians estimate ancient Egyptians mummified over 70 million people, yet only a fraction remain today. The reason is grim, ...

CENTER CITY (WPVI) -- We've seen them in horror movies, and even adventure flicks featuring Indiana Jones, but the real thing has arrived in Philadelphia. An authentic human mummy is on loan to the ...

In the desert, hundreds of miles south of Cairo, archaeologists are celebrating a history-making find, the largest ancient city ever found in Egypt. Not far from the storied tombs of the Valley of the ...

The international spotlight recently turned to crime in Egypt when a pharaoh’s priceless bracelet was stolen from a Cairo ...

The city was exceptionally well preserved, with homes, factories, and worship sites largely intact. Archaeologists have unearthed in Egypt a long-lost Nile city containing homes, factories, and a ...