Trump has committed to increasing U.S. energy production, particularly fossil fuels. He signed an executive order Monday ...

An ancient rock engraving in the Lower Nile Valley may offer a rare glimpse into the origin of Egyptian kings. The art panel ...

A rock art panel near Aswan, Egypt, may depict a rare example of an elite individual from the First Dynasty, shedding light on the formation of the ancient Egyptian state.

In the heart of Egypt's Sahara Desert, an extraordinary site known as Wadi Al-Hitan, or Whale Valley, has unveiled fossils ...

Did you know whales evolve from a land based animal into an ocean-going mammal? To look into the evidence we need to look at ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA sequencing reveals how these two populations also intermingled.

65 miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones contains many of the world’s best-preserved, most diverse fossils.

In the fossil-rich sands of the Faiyum Oasis in Egypt, archaeologists have uncovered one of the most complete skulls ever found from a formidable family of predators that roamed the Earth roughly ...

A British-Egyptian team of archeologists have found the first pharaoh's tomb in Egypt since King Tutankhamun's was found in 1922. The newly discovered tomb belonged to King Thutmose II, who ...

The fossil, which was unearthed in the Fayum Depression of Egypt's Western Desert, is the most complete skull of the hyaenodonta subfamily Hyainailourinae to be found in Africa.

A nearly complete skull fossil found in Egypt has revealed a new species of Hyaenodonta, an apex carnivore that mysteriously went extinct about 25 million years ago.