They didn’t even have iron tools to chisel and shape the blocks ... and significantly reduces friction, allowing the ancient Egyptians to more easily move massive stone blocks across the ...

The discovery of a bronze sword inscribed with the name of Pharaoh Ramses II gives new insight into the imperial domination ...

There is perhaps no institution on Earth whose opening has been as wildly anticipated as the Grand Egyptian Museum outside ...

One of Cleopatra’s Needles, a 224-ton Egyptian obelisk enveloped in hieroglyphs, stands today for all to admire—not in Cairo but in London. The ancient ... copper tools including saws and ...

A historian with Laboratoire HiSoMA, Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, in France, has theorized that iron ... to Egypt. In Deir Elbahari near Luxor, the site of ancient ...

Archaeologists working near Măgura Călanului hill in Romania have discovered a remarkably rare cache of iron tools dating ...

a villager walking through the forest near the Măgura Călanului limestone quarry in Romania came across an ancient set of tools hidden at the base of a tree. The cache of iron tools, estimated ...

Egyptian officials announced Tuesday the discovery of the tomb of King Thutmose II, the last of the lost tombs of the kings of ancient Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, which reigned for over two ...

The entrance to the tomb was found in October 2022. Egyptian officials announced on Tuesday that an ancient tomb has been discovered, marking the first Egyptian royal tomb uncovered in over 100 ...

Visitors taking in the ancient pyramids of ... pulleys or iron tools, took about 25 years to build, by some estimates. So far, the Grand Egyptian Museum has taken more than 20.) ...