The Egyptologist, Zahi Hawass, announced a documentary chronicling his life and career. Here's why we're excited for it.

As Rome closed in, Cleopatra faced total defeat as Octavian completed his conquest and Mark Antony fell from power. Ancient ...

Step beyond Hollywood myths to uncover the real Cleopatra, the final ruler of ancient Egypt’s Ptolemaic dynasty. This documentary explores her Greek-Macedonian origins, exceptional education in ...

Saskia Hatvany / OPB Paula Tin Nyo sobbed as three men dug shovels into the cemetery ground where she’d buried a vault with her 20-year-old son’s keepsakes, baby teeth and umbilical cord, along with ...

Archaeologists recently discovered the remnants of an ancient Egyptian "pleasure boat" near the ruins of Cleopatra VII's lost palace in Alexandria's royal harbor. The discovery was announced by the ...

Archaeologists from GUARD Archaeology uncovered the unusual Bronze Age burial site near Twentyshilling Hill, Dumfries and Galloway, while working on a wind farm project. A groundbreaking discovery at ...

When one of his colleagues blew on a horn inside the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, an ancient, underground burial complex on the Mediterranean island of Malta, archaeologist Fernando Coimbra felt the sound ...

His Pulitzer-nominated book “Graven Images” inspired a reassessment of Puritan art, challenging the belief that imagery carved on headstones was meaningless. Allan Ludwig in the mid-1950s, setting up ...