Origins of Egypt's Great Pyramid questioned as evidence hints at earlier use by lost civilization

New claims about chemical traces inside Egypt's Great Pyramid are fueling explosive theories that the ancient monument may be ...

Archaeologists Discovered a Treasure Trove of Ancient Egyptian ‘Sticky Notes’

Archaeologists discovered the largest trove of ostraca—inscriptions on broken pottery sherds—ever found, with over 43,000 ...
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AUC Freshman Receives Highest IAL Physics and Maths Grade in Africa

Computer engineering freshman Yousef Khater achieved the highest grade in Africa for International Advanced Levels in physics and chemistry.

Archaeologists have discovered a papyrus with a fragment of the Iliad inside a mummy in Egypt.

Archaeologists from the Spanish-Egyptian expedition led by the University of Barcelona and the Institute of Ancient Near East ...

New study may finally reveal how Egypt’s Great Pyramid was built

For decades, experts have struggled to explain how Egypt’s Great Pyramid was built — but now a new study claims to have found ...

Archaeological mission in Oxyrhynchus has found Homer's 'Iliad' inside a Roman-era mummy

The Oxyrhynchus Archaeological Mission, run by the Institute of Ancient Near East Studies (IPOA) at the University of ...

Madagascar's ancient baobabs store 700 years of climate secrets—what they reveal

Madagascar is home to seven species of baobab trees, of which six are found nowhere else on the planet. Many of the trees ...