The much-derided white ibis wasn’t always a city-slicker. But now it calls Sydney home, a rare case of a metropolis being the ...

a role the ibis and its close relatives have some experience filling, from ancient Egypt to the The Harvard Lampoon’s emblem. The banner of the University of Sydney Alumni Festival.Credit ...

The Egyptian Vulture is endangered due to poisoning and food scarcity ... The Oriental Darter is declining due to pollution ...

A new study found that one crocodile's mummification began "very rapidly after the death," which was caused by blunt force trauma to its head.

One of them is called the sacred ibis and it lives along the Nile ... They seem like they’re having sex and also fighting. And they’re in an Egyptian landscape. So, the glossy and the sacred are ...

CAIRO — Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city of Abydos dating to about 3,600 years ago during a chaotic ...

Check out his tomb. Archaeologists have discovered a mysterious new king of ancient Egypt, buried in a network of tombs at Anubis Mountain. "Discovering king's tombs, new pharaohs, are few and far ...

The tomb was found within an ancient Egyptian necropolis in Abydos. The burial is located about 23 feet (7 meters) underground and contains a limestone burial chamber covered with mudbrick vaults ...

Archaeologists have long assumed that ancient Egyptian pyramids were reserved for the richest members of society – but an analysis of burials at a site called Tombos suggests low-status workers ...