Today, beer is one of the world's most popular alcoholic beverages, with countries across the globe crafting their own unique ...

A newly published scientific analysis has identified a previously unknown formula for ancient eye makeup used in northwestern ...

I ndeed, much of what humanity categorizes as “recorded history” spans little more than the last five thousand years. In the ...

THE thesis which it is proposed to outline here embodies the following propositions: (1) Available evidence points to Mesopotamia as the oldest known centre of scientific observation permanently ...

The Rosetta Stone text confirms that the tradition of debt cancellation was upheld in Egypt by the pharaohs from the 8 th century B.C., before Alexander the Great conquered the country in the 4 th ...

UNITED NATIONS -- An exhibition highlighting China's ancient Shu civilization opened on Monday at the UN headquarters in New York, providing a rare international platform for a culture that flourished ...

For 150 years, people have tried to decipher mysterious symbols written by an advanced civilization believed to rival ancient Egypt. Can a $1 million prize help crack the puzzle?

Ancient Egypt bombshell as 'Jesus Christ's body found' in hidden chamber, claims expert British anthropologist Dr Paul Warner claims to have found the body of Jesus Christ and the Ark of the ...

Across the Levant in the 15th century B.C., cities were rising up against freshly-installed pharaoh Thutmose III. It would be the make-or-break test of his new power—and if he could maintain it.

The Penn Museum has been involved in archaeological research in Egypt for more than a century. Most of the material in the ...