At her mortuary temple, Hatshepsut carved an extraordinary story into stone: a divine birth. The scenes show the god Amun, disguised as her father, visiting her mother Queen Ahmose to conceive a ...

After a century of searching, a chance discovery led archaeologists to one of the most important sanctuaries in the ancient Greek world Archaeologists first explored Eretria in the late nineteenth ...

In the Egyptian city of Esna, a highly decorated entrance hall completed during the mid-third century a.d. is the only surviving part of a temple dedicated to the creator god Khnum. Some 100 major ...

Egypt isn’t merely a destination; it’s a dialogue with time. Few countries can claim a living relationship with their past ...

About 9,500 years ago, a community of hunter-gatherers in central Africa cremated a small woman on an open pyre at the base of Mount Hora, a prominent natural landmark in what is now northern Malawi, ...

“Any viewer’s tongue will grow shorter trying to describe it,” marveled the inveterate traveler Ibn Battuta while visiting Jerusalem in 1326. “This is one of the most fantastic of all buildings, of ...

Sicko financier Jeffrey Epstein’s twisted “Pedophile Island’’ included an unnerving “temple”-like building featuring an elaborate ceiling mural depicting signs of the zodiac and a pair of ratty ...

More than 3,000 years ago, an earthquake toppled two monumental statues of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III. Now, after decades of restoration work, the artworks, called the Colossi of ...

Knesset Member Ohad Tal led Mosab Hassan Yousef, known as the “Son of Hamas,” on a rare tour of restricted sections of the Kotel Tunnels beneath the Temple Mount. The visit highlighted archaeological ...

This December marks just over a century since one of the most breath-holding moments in archaeological history — the day in 1922 when Howard Carter first gazed into the long-sealed tomb of Tutankhamun ...