Even those who know little of ancient Egypt’s mysteries have heard of the infamous Book of the Dead. And now, researchers ...

The Valley of the Kings was part of a vast "necropolis" or "city of the dead" beside the Nile and the ancient city of Thebes, the capital of Egypt at different times and center of worship of the ...

Since the advent of geobrowser Google Earth, a number of strange and mysterious things around the globe are visible.

From mysterious artifacts to giant megaliths, discoveries that promise to reveal our past have completely baffled the ...

Despite centuries of efforts to map our planet precisely, our view of the world will always be political and imperfect.

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

El Argar had a centralized system for the production and distribution of its pottery vessels and clay objects, all made from material sourced from a single location ...

From the Shark’s Mouth Beacon, you can quickly find the location of the Dead Man’s Trail Treasure Map by heading straight south into the center of the Great Grand Sea area, specifically until ...

In the following visual explainer, Al Jazeera maps ... Egypt, one of the oldest countries in Africa, calls itself Masr in Arabic, thought to come from the word “Mizraim”, a reference to the an ...

The game takes you on an adventure that sees you visiting all kinds of fantastical locations, from Ancient Egypt-style civilizations to cities hidden under the sea. Despite its more whimsical art ...

The entrance to the tomb of Thutmose II in Luxor in southern Egypt ... the ancient quarrying work songs: ‘Hurrah for Djehuty, one big push for Djehuty’. Many of the people we work with on excavations ...