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.

B.C. might not sound like the best time to punch into a time machine, but for time travellers with a taste for ancient ...

The legendary Macedonian King Alexander III, famously known as Alexander the Great (who was educated by the titanic Greek ...

From the pyramids of Egypt to the jungle-choked ruins of Angkor Wat, from the magical desert capital of the Nabateans in ...

Between 1250 and 1325 CE, the Mississippian people transformed a bend in the Etowah River into the Southeast’s most powerful ...

Egypt says that Ethiopia has consistently lacked the political will to reach a binding agreement on its now-complete dam. The ...

Turkey, one of the few countries in the world that most Americans do not visit, probably in response to the 1978 movie ...

Ethiopia’s prime minister says the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile has been completed. Egypt has long opposed the dam, calling it an existential threat to its water supply.

Archaeologists have discovered a once-bustling city with buildings that had multiple storeys, and a temple of the cobra ...

Filmmaker and former professional basketball player Deon Taylor, left, discusses the movie industry as Las Vegas Raiders ...

Ancient Rome was a rigidly hierarchical society where the ruling elite stigmatized everyone who had to work with their hands. Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...