Ancient historians recorded legends about the invention of the first coins, and archaeologists have found some surprising ...

Ancient Greeks developed sophisticated units of measurement ranging from measuring length, distance, volume, and weight of solids and liquids ...

The burial chamber — which was found in January and features many decorated rooms and mudbrick vaults — is the second major ...

Egypt's central bank lowered overnight interest rates by 225 basis points on Thursday, its first cut in more than five years, ...

Egypt cut interest rates for the first time in almost five years, potentially spurring investment key to an economic rebound ...

The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism may have been a kind of astronomical calculator, but researchers are unsure whether ...

The team has uncovered and photographed scenes that reveal how ancient Egyptians depicted and worshipped their gods and how they conceived of the universe through the astronomical objects and ...

The famous Boy King pharaoh, Tutankhamun, ruled Ancient Egypt from around 1332 - 1323 BC. He ascended the throne at just nine years old but died unexpectedly at the age of around 18. His tomb was ...

A team of Egyptian and French archaeologists have discovered ancient artefacts dating back to a school known as the 'House of Life. The group were excavating an area near the Ramesseum Temple in Luxor ...

Hundreds of boats laden with luxuries sailed from India to Egypt every year. At Palmyra (an ancient city in what’s now Syria) in the second century CE, an inscription shows 90 million sesterces in ...