The temple, which measures around 450 feet in length and roughly 250 feet wide is perhaps the best-preserved in Egypt.

The Rosetta Stone was vital in understanding the writing system of hieroglyphics, which spent years as a forgotten writing system. After the stone was first discovered, it took many years for it to be ...

A joint Egyptian-German archaeological mission has made a significant discovery at the Temple of Edfu during restoration work ...

lect./disc. As perhaps the most famous of all of the cultures of Mesoamerica, the Maya are best known for soaring temples, portraits of kings, a complex hieroglyphic writing system, and a dramatic ...

Ramses the Great is credited with expanding Egypt's reach as far as modern Syria to the east and Sudan to the south.

One of the colorful paintings uncovered in the temple of Edfu. Martin Stadler / Universität Würzburg The ongoing restoration of one of the largest temples in Egypt has revealed colorful ...

More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with the insignia of Ancient Egypt’s Ramses II — the most powerful pharaoh of the era — was set down in a mud hut somewhere in the Nile Delta.

Archaeologists have unearthed the ancient remains of an Egyptian army barracks and the artifacts left there, including a still-shiny bronze sword engraved with the name of King Ramses II in ...

Ancient Sea Cow Attacked by a Crocodile and Sharks Sheds New Light on Prehistoric Food Chains Aug. 29, 2024 — A new study showing how a prehistoric sea cow was preyed upon by not one ...

Using the same method, an archaeologist shows how she dates artefacts from Ancient Egypt. Students could examine a collection of familiar objects and put them in order of age, based on what they ...