The newly excavated 4,500-year-old valley temple from ancient Egypt holds a "public calendar" and a roof for astronomical ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered the remains of an ancient Egyptian temple, dedicated to the sun god Ra. The temple is thought ...

Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient sun god temple in Egypt, which showed signs of being modified into a residential ...

In the Northern Hemisphere, your shadow will be longer as the December sky event is set to take place today, Sunday, December ...

Despite sitting on the seafloor two millennia off the coast of Alexandria, still visible on the boat’s timber was graffiti ...

Archeologists have unearthed the remains of a 4,500-year-old Egyptian temple where visitors would sky-gaze while on the roof.

The celebration marking the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum was not a fleeting cultural event, but a collective ritual that reconfigured the relationship between Egyptians and their symbolic ...

While we now know what the winter solstice actually is, people around the world for thousands of years have believed the legends that surround the tales of gods, nature and heroes and above all ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

The winter solstice is not only an astronomical event, but also an important day in the mythology and folk beliefs of different cultures. In ancient times, this moment was associated with the cult of ...

Ancient rituals, religious symbolism and royal fashion combined to turn an evergreen into Christmas’s most enduring symbol.

From sailing the Nile to discovering necropolises, things to do in Cairo are a portal into a past filled with extraordinary ...