While it is common to see cats in modern households, cats are among the most recently domesticated animals. Archaeological ...

During an excavation at a site believed to date back to the Greek-era near Alexandria, archaeologists uncovered a stunning ...

Two Italian scientists claim to have discovered 38,000-year-old structures buried deep beneath the pyramids. But there's a ...

Doctors Without Borders slams Israel for targeting humanitarian workers, blocking aid to Gaza and mass killings.

Tax day has changed history, with examples including the Rosetta Stone, Julius Caesar’s progressive policies, Caesar Augustus ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

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Archaeologists working in Egypt have unearthed a previously undiscovered school in the grand mortuary temple of Pharaoh ...

Imagine the dramatic and potentially transformative societal changes if all men suddenly disappeared from Earth.

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a "major" 3,400-year-old town dating to the New Kingdom that was ...

A few years back, when I was working as part of an archaeological mission in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, I unearthed a slab of white limestone covered in ancient paint smears. More of that later ...

The showdown between the ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia was one of the pivotal moments of ...