After years of delays, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum – set to be the world’s largest devoted to ancient Egypt – will ...

Cliff-rappelling scientists uncovered a crossbow bolt, part of a slingshot and 25 shoes in ancient vulture nesting sites ...

Is it the long-faded colors of ancient artifacts from all around the world or the hushed sounds of visitors discussing what ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

The strange and powerful symbol at the heart of one of history’s greatest temples reveals the importance of the goddess ...

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Some 3,500 years ago, hunter-gatherers began building massive earthwork mounds along the Mississippi River at Poverty Point, ...

Humans have been trying to get "to heaven" since ancient times. That's why a popular assertion that “size does not matter” ...

Ancient Greeks encoded the secrets of their civilization in ways hidden in plain sight, shaping a legacy that endures through ...

Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...

Turns out, ancient body art is a lot more common than we once thought—and it's providing historians with new ways of ...

While pumpkin spice is available in one form or another all year long, sales of pumpkin-spiced products increase ...