Civilizations from Stone Age Scotland to the eighth-century Maya to 13th-century African empires have used dry stone walling ...

Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country and alongside Mesopotamia was a part of the Fertile Crescent which is ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

Researchers have sequenced the genome of an ancient Egyptian who was buried in a pot nearly 5,000 years ago, about the time ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

Museums worldwide are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. Here's why it matters, who's receiving them, and what it means ...

On the morning of October 7, 2023, Pastor Nekemeya Steven Mukisa was preparing for a worship service in Jerusalem when the ...

What was the geography of ancient Greece? According to current knowledge, 130 million years ago, fragments of the Earth tore away from Africa and collided with the ... Odysseus himself, the king of ...

In a groundbreaking scientific discovery, an international research team has successfully sequenced the first whole ancient ...

The watermelon has long inspired artists, such as Giuseppe Recco's Still Life With Fruit (1634-1695). The first color sketches of the red-fleshed, sweet watermelon in Europe can be found in a ...

The Manhyia Palace in Kumasi was transformed into a magnificent image of African royalty and tradition on Thursday, as the ...

For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more ...