Three tombs dating back thousands of years have been unearthed in an ancient Egyptian burial complex ... Most scenes in his tomb were destroyed, except for depictions of furniture carriers ...

New research from the University of Chicago shows that dentine, the inner layer of teeth that transmits sensory information to nerves inside the pulp, first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored ...

An earthquake in Croatia led to a chain of events that helped archaeologists recently discover an ancient Roman theater, officials say. Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and Media announced the find ...

Gilded coffin lids from the Pharaonic era, gold funerary masks and what's believed to be fragments of Queen Hatshepsut's ancient temple were among the 25 items accepted in Cairo on Monday.

there are no depictions of major deities," states the head of the excavations in the North Palace, Prof. Dr. Aaron Schmitt of the Institute of Prehistory, Protohistory and Ancient Near Eastern ...

Geologists have found that an ancient meteorite hit Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought, which has massive implications for the geological history of the region and some of ...

First, there is the story of sculpture, especially portraiture, in ancient Rome, which is mainly a narrative of politics and propaganda. Second, there are the twists and turns by which these ...

To answer this question, it’s worth a dive back into ancient history ... there are already artistic depictions of ball games. For example, in the tomb of the Nomarch of the 11th Dynasty ...

So Liu and colleagues searched databases of ancient Chinese poems for references to the porpoise, sometimes called the “river pig” or other nicknames. After ruling out references based on ...