On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an archaeological site named for a mound roughly in the shape of a horseshoe, or ...

ASTANA — Once a thriving capital and strategic stronghold in Central Asia, the ancient city of Syganak in southern Kazakhstan ...

Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to the faith prevalent in the modern world today. Human beings have respected ...

Reading like the lyrics to a popular song or poem from modern times, ancient Greek poems have prompted new insights into ...

The NASA satellite image shows rust-red rock formations in Wyoming—evidence of 220-million-year-old 'megamonsoons'.

Think Karens and Yelp complaints are a relatively new thing? This ancient discovery proves humans have always loved to ...

The Hephthalites, also called the White Huns, were feared horsemen who once ruled large swaths of north India. They were said ...

Exhibition running in the French capital until November presents around 100 archaeological masterpieces illuminating Gaza’s ...

By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

What makes these 50 cave pearls so unique is that some of them contain archaeological artifacts ... while another two contained ancient plaster. It was found that most of the pottery dated ...

Four years later, many of the artifacts—none of which ... b.c. to a.d. 200 among Hellenistic, Persian, Indian, Chinese and nomadic cultures along the ancient Silk Road—trading routes ...