Archaeologists have found 5,000-year-old ancient Egyptian rock art in the Sinai Desert that depicts the conquest of the ...

One of the earliest unmistakable images of a state projecting power outside its heartland consider a rock carving in southwestern Sinai, dated to about 3000 B.C., which portrays power projected in a ...

This specific iconography of subjugation — a bound captive struck by a weapon — has deep roots in Egyptian state ideology. It ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The rock art panel shows a boat dragged by five figures. It has a standing figure holding an oar ...

An ancient inscription found in Sinai shows how Egypt claimed power beyond the Nile more than 5,000 years ago.

Rock engraving of a Protodynastic boat from Wadi Abu Subeira. Credit: Dorian Vanhulle, AKAP A rock art panel near Aswan, Egypt, may depict a rare example of an elite individual from the First Dynasty, ...

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient rock carving of a boat on the banks of the Nile in Egypt. New research suggests that the engraving is up to 5,100 years old, predating Egypt’s First Dynasty.

A scene carved into the rock, of extraordinary brutality, has remained exposed to the elements for millennia in the arid landscape of the southwestern Sinai Peninsula. It depicts a large man, with his ...