The plague of Akhetaten has long been cited as a possible explanation for the mysterious abandonment of ancient Egypt's short-lived capital city. However, a comprehensive new archaeological analysis ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

The inscriptions show that people from different parts of India interacted with Greeks and Egyptians in Egypt in the 1st-3rd centuries AD ...

Archaeologists have uncovered rock-cut tombs dating back to the Old Kingdom in Aswan, Egypt, revealing pottery vessels and jewelry.

Akhenaten’s capital, Akhetaten, long thought abandoned due to plague, shows no archaeological evidence of an epidemic. Burial sites reveal no mass graves or delayed interments; most remains were ...

Researchers studied the geologic history around the Karnak Temple near Luxor to distinguish when the famed temple could have been constructed. The team found the site was once underwater before the ...

Until now, historians knew of Tamil traders reaching Egyptian ports such as Berenike along the Red Sea. However, these newly studied inscriptions indicate that merchants did not merely dock, trade, ...

However, careful reexaminations indicate the “little awl” is far more significant than originally believed—so much so that it may rewrite ancient Egyptian history. In a study published in the journal ...

Researchers have identified what may be the earliest known metal drill from ancient Egypt-and it was hidden in plain sight.