Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, they created a culture that influenced both civilizations.

Archaeologists uncovered the remains of a six-fingered shaman who they believe held significant spiritual power in the ...

A team of archaeologists, paleontologists, and historians from several institutions in Spain, Germany, and Poland, has found ...

Researchers made the new discoveries during field work at the Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan. The research provides insights into regional heritage and fills gaps in knowledge about how ancient ...

As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

The ancient faith dating back to 1700 B.C. is in danger of becoming extinct if its dwindling followers don't find a way to ...

When it comes to chronicling the past, it seems there are basically two ways discoveries are made: either they’re the result ...

New genetic evidence traces the roots of English, Sanskrit, and hundreds of other languages to a group of hunter-gatherers in ...

A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle ...

The human race is presented like a museum exhibit—a grimly compelling concept, but one that makes for a glitchy play.

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo-European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient ...