The Shatby Necropolis is the resting place of Alexandria's first Greek settlers and the the oldest surviving site in the Egyptian city.

Lawyers for an Egyptian poet and activist who has been allegedly detained and held in solitary confinement without charge in ...

Nearly 200 years on from first being erected in Place de la Concorde, a French egyptologist has found new messages in the ...

Ancient Greece's Special Forces, from the Sacred Band of Thebes to the Hetairoi of Alexander the Great's army, became ...

The newfound tomb of an Egyptian prince has a false door, which ancient people viewed as an "entry" and "exit" for souls in ...

The body of the 88-year-old pope, who died on Monday in his rooms at the Vatican's Santa Marta guesthouse after suffering a ...

Authorities on the Greek island of Crete have arrested six people allegedly involved in an antiquities smuggling operation.

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history. Archaeologists from Egypt and the U.S. unearthed the tomb ...

Campaigners are calling for the police to investigate ‘criminal’ felling of ancient oak tree. On around 3 April 2025, the Whitewebbs Oak was felled by unidentified contractors in Whitewebbs Park. This ...

A. M. Blackman, “The House of the Morning” (Journal of Egyptian Arch"logy, vol. v. pp. 148–165). By the same author also: “Some Notes on the Ancient Egyptian Practice of Washing the Dead ...