For centuries, hieroglyphs have helped historians piece together the beliefs, rituals, and everyday lives of ancient ...

Pharaoh Shoshenq III had been buried in this tomb even though he had already built a larger one elsewhere in city of Tanis.

Deep beneath African deserts and Middle Eastern plateaus, scientists are uncovering a hidden world of tiny tunnels that ...

While keeping the long-dead crocodilian intact, McKnight and her team also “virtually” recreated the bronze hook lodged in ...

A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

Scientists from Arizona State University and other institutions finally assigned a species name to a fossil known as the ...

million-year-old fossils revealed that this species began to diversify millions of years earlier than previously thought, ...

Bones of now extinct species became a haven for bee babies thousands of years ago, scientists report in a first-of-its-kind ...

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival ...