Long before the first stone of Giza was laid, the ancient Egyptians looked to the receding floodwaters of the Nile to explain the origins of the universe. It began with 'Nun'—a boundless, silent abyss ...

As the team uncovers what lies beneath the ground, we learn about individual ancient community members. For instance, we've found the remains of an older woman who lived into her 60s and experienced ...

I recently stepped into my hometown's municipal museum, Ordos Museum in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, to ...

Researchers have explored how the River Nile evolved over the past 11,500 years and how changes in its geography could have helped shape the fortunes of ancient Egyptian civilization. The research, ...

Ancient Egypt—a civilization that was one of the most powerful the world has ever seen and which lasted for nearly 3,000 years—was among the first to mummify its dead, providing us a window into its ...

Circular mounds of rocks dot the desert landscape at the archaeological site of Tombos in northern Sudan. They reveal tumuli – the underground burial tombs used at least as far back as 2500 B.C. by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Discussions about ancient history in Africa are dominated by the rise of Egypt. But there were several societies that rose to ...