Now, a 3,300-year-old Egyptian text preserved in the British Museum is once again fueling one of the Bible's most controversial debates: were the giants of the Old Testament rooted in real historical ...

Swiss-Russian harpist Alexander Boldachev has gained listeners with his renditions of popular favorites such as Nirvana’s ...

Between all the tech campuses and startup offices in San Jose sits a full-blown Egyptian temple housing thousands of ancient artifacts that would make Indiana Jones weep with joy. That’s not a mirage ...

The symbols, discovered on 40,000-year-old artifacts in caves in southwest Germany, may have been a precursor to the first written language ...

In a study published in Historical Biology, Dr. Mohammed Naimi and his colleagues report the discovery of the first plesiosaurian remains from Algeria. Additionally, the fossil, dated to the Late ...

When we look up at the night sky, most of us see the same patterns of stars that the ancient […] ...

This ancient queen of Palmyra conquered Egypt, captured Roman provinces, and nearly transformed her realm into an empire ...

The underlying substance is Sumerian bitumen: a naturally occurring petroleum material (often called an asphalt-like “black goo”) long associated with waterproofing and adhesion, and even with ...

A new study provides a clearer timeline for one of the most significant prehistoric sites worldwide for the study of human ...

More than half a million Muslims across New York City are observing Ramadan this year. For the first time, they are doing so ...

The publication of “Chroma” represents an important shift by museums toward recognizing polychromy and its entanglement with ...

Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, ...