Step inside the Cairo Museum to see evidence of ancient tools and machinery that challenge conventional ...

During an excavation at a site believed to date back to the Greek-era near Alexandria, archaeologists uncovered a stunning ...

Every fossil find and genetic study tweaks what we think we know about the timeline or the circumstances under which ...

Ancient civilizations around the world had clever inventions that were so ahead of ... Calendars may seem ordinary today, but in ancient Egypt and Sumer, they were revolutionary tools.

Explore the key moments in the history of quantum theory, from the early ideas of Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg to ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a "major" 3,400-year-old town dating to the New Kingdom that was ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

Atlantic Richfield and Humble Oil (now ExxonMobil) announce the discovery of an oil field beneath Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, the largest oil and natural-gas discovery in North American history.

The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century ... In one of the busiest afterlives in history, she has become an asteroid, a video game, a cigarette, a slot machine, a strip club, a synonym ...