Beneath the streets of a modern Greek town lies one of the Bronze Age world's great forgotten powers, a palace city of frescoed halls, international treasure, and royal dynasties cursed across ...

Thebes, the city of the god Amon, was the capital of Egypt during the period of the Middle and New Kingdoms. With the temples and palaces at Karnak and Luxor, and the necropolises of the Valley of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient ruins of the Karnak Temple complex in Luxor, Egypt. (CREDIT: Dr Ben Pennington) Five hundred meters east of today’s Nile, ...

Trade Red Sea resorts for a historic holiday to majestic temples and pharaoh tombs in Egypt’s eastern city. Lapping the banks of the crocodile-peppered Nile, Luxor, once Egypt’s ancient capital Thebes ...

LUXOR, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that a tomb dated to the Middle Kingdom period has been discovered in the Asasif necropolis at Thebes, which is located on the western bank of the Nile River in Upper ...

The Bronze Age in ancient Greece was a pivotal era that laid the foundation for the rich tapestry of Hellenic civilization.

An obscure ancient Egyptian text discovered in the 19th century led to discoveries that rewrote the timeline of early medical ...

The Manchester Museum in northern England is asking visitors whether it should withdraw an ancient Egyptian mummy from its displayed collections, 200 years after it was first shown. The mummified body ...

Five hundred meters east of today’s Nile, in the city of ancient Thebes, rises one of Egypt’s greatest and most enduring monuments: the temple complex of Karnak. Over 3,000 years, its colossal pylons ...