The item was excavated last March but has only been receiving wide attention in the last month: the two-foot-tall image of Siddhartha Gautama, the historical Buddha, carved from Anatolian marble, in ...

Polish archaeologists found papyrus with letters from Roman centurions stationed in Egypt in Berenike. These unique documents were discovered along with, among other things, ceramics from Italy, Roman ...

Archaeologists have made the shocking discovery of a marble Buddha statue in a temple in the ancient Egyptian port city of Berenike, shedding new light on the trade links between India and ancient ...

Archeologists working in Egypt are prohibited from taking artifacts out of the country, even something as common as a potshard or small as a seed. Even so, University of Delaware history professor ...

Climate change has been influencing human development for thousands of years, according to scientists examining why a well-fortified port city in Egypt was suddenly abandoned more than 2,100 years ago ...

The monkeys were likely imported from thousands of miles away. Since its discovery in 2011, archaeologists have been excavating the cemetery near Berenike’s urban center. Experts have documented ...

Researchers uncovered the two-foot-tall Buddha statue in Berenike. Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Researchers have discovered a two-foot-tall Buddha statue in Berenike, an ancient ...

In Egypt's ancient town of Berenike, archaeologists discovered a nearly 2-thousand year old pet cemetery with dogs, cats and monkeys. Elizabeth Keatinge (@ekeatinge) has more. In Egypt's ancient town ...

Researchers recently published new findings from the excavations of the Berenike site, a Greco-Roman seaport in the Egyptian Eastern desert. The study results describes the excavation of a religious ...

At the site of Berenike on the Red Sea coast of southern Egypt, archaeologists discovered the burials of nearly 100 complete animal skeletons dating to about 75-150 AD, making it one of the earliest ...

Roman military officers stationed in Egypt kept pet monkeys imported from India as a symbol of wealth, according to a new study of an ancient animal cemetery containing the bodies of dozens of ...