Archaeologists have assembled the “world’s most difficult jigsaw puzzle” to reveal huge frescoes that once adorned a luxury ...

Could the Great Sphinx of Giza originally have been carved as a female figure or a lioness? This video explores alternative historical narratives based on oral traditions, stellar alignments, and ...

An excavation in London has revealed one of the largest collections of painted Roman wall plaster to be discovered in the British capital.

It is believed the frescoes once decorated at least 20 internal walls of a high-status Roman building between AD 40 and 150.

From the tombs of pharaohs to Roman frescoes, Egyptian blue adorned everything from sacred artifacts to everyday pottery.

While on a hike with her family, a child stumbled across a 3,800-year-old Egyptian amulet ... Image Ziv, moments after finding the ancient artifact. She said she first picked it up because ...

On the coast of the Cyrenaica region in present-day Libya lies the ancient city of Ptolemais, founded by the Egyptian pharaohs of the Ptolemaic ... embedded in the walls of one of the cisterns. The ...

Archaeologists have discovered long-lost ancient Egyptian tombs that were hiding beneath a stone well for more than 4,000 years. Working at a site outside of Cairo, they uncovered four ancient ...

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The tomb of an ancient Egyptian royal medical ... preliminary studies show that its walls remain intact, with “beautifully carved and painted inscriptions,” as described by Philippe Columbier ...

Engravings on the wall of the tomb at Saqarra in Egypt. CREDIT: Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. “The tomb is adorned with stunning carvings ... dynasty of ancient Egypt, between ...

One wall features a carved and brightly painted symbolic door, an element commonly found in tombs to represent the passage to the afterlife. The entrance to the newly discovered tomb of an ancient ...