Many families enjoy an outing to the zoo on a warm summer day. People have been fascinated with exotic animals since ancient ...

During the festival of Passover, the story is told of the exodus of the ancient Israelites from Egypt in the 13th century BCE. The untold story is the second exodus and ultimate ethnic cleansing of ...

Reviving a forgotten Roman and Indian trade route could contain China, unite America’s allies, and reshape the global order.

His enduring legacy owes much to the spectacular discovery of his tomb in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter, which ...

Marion sits like a well-kept secret in Williamson County, where the flatlands of central Illinois begin their gentle roll ...

In the approximately 4000 years in which it developed around the Nilethe civilization ofAncient Egypt He developed inventions ...

What false historical information appeared online on April Fool’s Day this year? Did a Hittite document really prove the Trojan War?

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

The Archimedes screw, an ancient Greek invention for lifting water. Learn about its origins, how it works, and its modern ...

The crew of a recreational submarine that sank off the Egyptian Red Sea coast killing six Russian tourists and injuring nine ...

New research reveals that not only elites were buried in Egyptian pyramids—laborers may have rested there too.

‘Out of Egypt’ More recently, Jews have lived in both of these sites of ancient exiles: modern-day Egypt and Iraq. While those in Iraq could claim a history of hundreds of years, those in ...