The bronze figurehead of a goddess is one of the highlights of a new exhibition featuring Sudan's ancient Kingdom of Kush, ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers have discovered life-size rock carvings of camels, gazelles and other animals in the Saudi Arabian desert. Gaza awaits the reopening of the Rafah border crossing, its link ...

Archaeologists recently found an ancient copper workshop in the Sinai region of Egypt – the land tied to Moses and the Book of Exodus. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the ...

Scholars were wrong about prehistoric Sicily. Davide Tanasi, a professor at the University of South Florida, has new evidence that not only were horses present on the Mediterranean island earlier than ...

Maharaja Agrasen is believed to have been a legendary king who ruled over Agroha, an ancient city likely in the present-day ...

New insights into an ancient swimming reptile are more than skin deep. An analysis of a 240-million-year-old fossil, published August 29 in the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, offers clues to how a ...

The ancient Egyptians took a number of measures to safeguard the pyramids. But did they ever resort to booby traps? The answer, Egyptologists told Live Science, is an emphatic no. "No, they didn't use ...

For modern-day visitors to the archaeological park of Pompeii, the sight of long lines can be a source of annoyance. But to its aristocratic residents 2,000-years-ago, the presence of people waiting ...

The 3,000-year-old gold and lapis bracelet, once owned by Pharaoh Amenemope, was being restored ahead of a loan to a museum in Rome. A similar gold and lapis lazuli bracelet recently went missing from ...

NASA announced Wednesday that its Perseverance rover discovered what scientists are calling a “potential biosignature” in a rock on Mars last year. This signature, which may have a biological origin ...