The "intriguing new" rock engraving was found on the west bank of the Nile River near Aswan in November 2022, during a survey ...

The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

Seven months after the fall of Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad, FRANCE 24’s Wassim Nasr gained access to sites ...

Nefertari was the beloved wife of Rameses II, and her extravagant tomb proves it. Its restored paintings tell an interesting ...

The bombing at the Mar Elias Church in Damascus, Syria, last month that killed over two dozen people is an indication that ...

An ancient rock engraving in the Lower Nile Valley may offer a rare glimpse into the origin of Egyptian kings. The art panel ...

Genome-wide analysis of 93 skeletons from Israel, Jordan and Lebanon traces an unbroken genetic thread across three millennia.

The United States government has revoked its designation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham as a foreign terrorist organization, seven ...

Archaeologists used to think that the Clovis people were the first inhabitants of the Americas some 13,500 years ago. The evidence from these ancient sites says otherwise.

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented ...

One member of the minority religious community found asylum in Europe and sends home his meager grocery store wages.