Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists and historians have known for decades that ancient Egyptians worshipped cats, but recent research has proven that ...

The mummies were on the move. The Egyptian government held a giant parade Saturday in Cairo to transport 22 royal mummies to a new museum. The ancient royals previously resided in the Egyptian Museum ...

More than 3,000 years ago the queen of the Hittites, who lived in what is now Turkey, sent a clay tablet to Ramses II, the Egyptian pharaoh, with an SOS: “I have no grain in my lands.” Previously, the ...

A top archaeologist recently explained that the curse of the pharaohs — which had supposedly caused the demise of those who dared to disturb the ancient tombs — was actually a simple case of built-up ...