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 ...

Here's something that might surprise you: ancient Egyptians called the river "Ar" or "Aur," meaning "black," a reference to the rich, dark sediment that the Nile's waters carried from the Horn of ...

A team of archaeologists working at Tell el-Farama in Egypt’s North Sinai has uncovered the remains of an ancient temple ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —Like a fingerprint, teeth are unique to each individual. Dental records are useful in identifying human remains, but what can tooth enamel tell us about an individual – or an ...

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 ...

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, ...

A Nile cruise is not just a vacation. It is a direct encounter with one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen. The Nile River stretches over 6,650 kilometers across Africa, and for ...

Just inside the entrance of Cairo’s must-see Egyptian Museum is an unassuming display case off to the left. Competing for attention in a sea of head-turning antiquities — from towering statues to ...

Nile River Cruises is a place of dreams, a country where history exists everywhere, the history of a place is in every stone, every temple and every wave of the famous river Nile. To travelers who ...