The Amarna Letters contain records of ancient lords and rulers seeking to establish diplomatic ties with Egyptian pharaohs.

Domestic cats first joined European communities around 2,000 years ago, during the age of Roman power, not in deep prehistory ...

From a distance, a stepped stone silhouette on Peru’s coast can look uncannily like something lifted from the Nile. The resemblance is striking enough that visitors often reach for Egyptian ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a rare burial chamber where several mummies were interred with thin gold foils in ...

On November 14, the Egyptian program Dawlat al-Tilawa (Recitation State) was launched. It is a major religious competition ...

Films that take their stories from the Old or New Testament are filling screens big and small. To understand why, it helps to know Hollywood history.

In this series, people from all walks of life offer an inside – and often unfiltered – take on their livelihoods and what keeps them going in their jobs. In this instalment, chief surveyor Soh Kheng ...

Several Muslim doctors in India have been found to be involved in terror attacks carried out by their “white-collar terror modules” ...

Paleontologists at the University of Chicago have revealed fossilized duck-billed dinosaur specimens from Wyoming that were carefully prepared in the Fossil Lab. These fossils preserve soft tissue and ...

This article unpacks the full origins of Hawkwoman, how she differs from Hawkgirl, and how her identity evolved across major ...

A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.

The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, ...