In rural Egypt, where the Nile’s fertile banks meet the desert’s edge, mudbrick houses, some standing for centuries, remain ...

The body’s exceptional state of conservation—with skin, hair and nails still intact—is relatively uncommon in the region, ...

A Chicago family purchased the artifact, a limestone frieze that was most likely once part of an ancient Mayan building, in a ...

It seems like every other slot machine has an ancient Egypt theme, with pyramids, mythological characters or symbols. Ancient ...

Ireland’s iconic megalithic tombs may not have served as burial sites for elite dynasties as previously believed. Recent ...

The remarkably preserved burial indicates a vast trade network and the importance of women among the Caral civilization.

The Mycenaean civilization was the first advanced culture of mainland Greece, shaping the foundations of Greek identity, myth, and language.

When Elder Quentin L. Cook was a young college student, a university professor that he enjoyed quoted that bit of Twain in ...

Scientists from Kyushu University have identified the long-sought “orange gene” behind ginger fur in domestic cats—a deletion ...

SCRANTON — When Pennsylvania began sending hundreds of millions of dollars to its most underfunded public school districts ...

And yet, To The East, Blackwards is a record that has never dated, that has remained relevant and resonant and energised: an ...