Watch: Migrants cling to overloaded small boat as over 1,000 cross Channel in one day - ...

Ancient Greeks used a primitive type of lifting machine to move heavy stones before they began using cranes 2,500 years ago.

Cheering spectators and dragon boat race teams roared to life in Hong Kong as the city celebrated the annual Dragon Boat Festival.

Located in Fustat (Old Cairo), the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) is like no other. The museum is dedicated ...

The Nile River, the world's longest river, is Egypt's beating heart as it has served as a lifeline for Egyptians since the ...

The Rosetta Stone is a slab of ancient stone that bears identical text inscribed in three different writing systems: ...

The Phoenicians were known for their exceptional naval skills which stemmed from two notable innovations at the time. HEre's ...

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered tombs dating back to the New Kingdom period (1550–1070 B.C.) and identified the names ...

Kinship is the act of returning the ancient body of a mummified man to Egypt. It follows in a series of large-scale art projects created over the past three decades set in extraor ...

Archaeologist Greer Jarrett spent three years piloting a small sailboat along the coast of Norway to understand Viking trade ...

It’s nearing the end of my 11-day Egypt experience, and there’s always something new to see. It’s easy to sit on the deck of the sleek Viking river ship—one of six in the cruise line’s Nile fleet—and ...

The Diolkos stone road is a marvel of engineering from Ancient Greece, allowing ships to travel from the Ionian Sea to the Aegean Sea.