How did civilization emerge from small groups of hunter-gatherers? Some archaeologists focus on cooperation as the vital ingredient – and find evidence for it in the form of feast-related artifacts.

A forgotten city thought to date back as far as the 10th century AD has been uncovered by a team of archaeologists in eastern Ethiopia.

Here, one of the papyri in the ancient logbook, which documented the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza. A logbook that contains records detailing the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza...

Akhenaten, Egypt’s first and only monotheistic Pharaoh, has intrigued Egyptologists for centuries. Has the Egyptian Mummy Project finally found his mummy? The Valley of the Kings, on the west bank of the Nile...