Space discovery shows that the pyramids were built using ingenious method ...

A long-neglected fossil seems to show the evolutionary leap that let the ancestors of today’s many-legged arthropods crawl ...

The ancient city of Napata, located in what is now northern Sudan, stood for centuries as a powerful urban and cultural center of the Kingdom of Kush. A new study explains how the city owed its ...

The pyramids of Egypt are among the most recognizable structures in human history, yet their purpose is often misunderstood or oversimplified. While they are commonly described as royal tombs, their ...

In the quiet landscape of Laconia in southern Greece lies a structure that is quietly stirring controversy among historians ...

Alabama has pyramids. Well, not exactly pyramids, but close enough that when you visit Moundville Archaeological Park, you’ll ...

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first ...

Researchers discovered an Iliad fragment in a mummy, marking the first literary papyrus used in embalming and offering new ...

Scans have detected two hidden, air-filled voids in Egypt's Menkaure Pyramid that could reveal an unknown entrance.

Work out the math on that timeline, and you come to an unexpected conclusion: that Cleopatra lived closer to us today than ...

If ancient wonders, mysterious temples and the steady flow of the Nile River are calling, a cruise on Egypt's most famous ...

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...