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 ...

According to Greek mythology, Perseus was the ancestor of the Persians through descendants who went by the names Perses and ...

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

The city hosted South Africa's International Day of Yoga, drawing thousands of participants in what the premier called a ‘new ...

Archaeologists in Stratonikeia, Turkey, uncovered a rare Greco-Roman library, revealing ancient architecture and centuries of ...

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

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 ...