A 12-day ‘Secrets of Egypt & the Nile’ cruise is like having an ancient civilizations textbook come to life.

Saqqara, a UNESCO World Heritage site, features numerous pyramids, ancient monasteries, and animal burial sites, making it a vast necropolis of the Ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis.

Sam Kean has gone back in time, at least in practice, for his new book "Dinner with King Tut." He talks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about "experimental archeology" and learning about ancient cultures.

Sam Kean has gone back in time, at least in practice, for his new book "Dinner with King Tut." He talks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about "experimental archeology" and learning about ancient cultures.

(CNN) — In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented insight about the ancestry of a man who lived during the time ...

Physical books allow you to underline, take notes, and wrestle through longer trains of thought. And studies show that ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature.