The Sphinx sits right next to a pharaoh’s pyramid complex, which makes many historians think it was built to watch over his ...

It is a sunny Spring morning at Government House, Yarralumla. Staff carefully manage the arrival of guests like clockwork as ...

Ancient Greek Tyrant Agathocles of Syracuse led a daring invasion of Africa, shaping Sicily’s history and influencing ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from the Americas has yielded the oldest genetic evidence yet of a bacterium closely related to the ...

Turns out, we can learn a lot about history and the age of things with a thing called Carbon Dating. Carbon dating has ...

New analysis of ancient Mesopotamian medical prescriptions suggests that, in a small but striking set of cases, patients were instructed to seek out the sanctuary of a deity as part of their healing ...

The project, described by Pompeii officials as Bruits de couloir (“corridor whispers”), used Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), a computational photography technique that photographs a surface ...

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...

Advanced digital imaging uncovers new love notes, insults and sketches on ancient wall, revealing unseen voices from AD 79.

By Molla Mitiku Every January, as sacred waters are prepared and ancient hymns rise before dawn, Timket (Ethiopian Epiphany) ...

From Shaikh-ul-Alam to contemporary politics, this essay revisits how individuals shape society in Kashmir, and where today’s ...

One of Israel’s leading archaeologists, he found evidence that the writing of the Old Testament likely began much earlier ...