In 1862, an American antiquities dealer was in an Egyptian marketplace, squinting at a scroll. The scroll was written in hieratic, a type of ancient Egyptian cursive, and the dealer, Edwin Smith, wasn ...

Brain Scans Reveal That Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Is Not a Placebo Sep. 5, 2024 — Brain scans reveal that mindfulness meditation engages different neural pathways compared to placebo ...

Recent scientific reevaluations of remains have historians rethinking the prevalence of women fighters throughout history.

Saqqara is located about 25 miles southwest of Cairo as "one of the most important cities in ancient Egyptian history," says the Ministry’s website. It adds, "Saqqara is truly an open-air museum ...

He began to practice twice a day, never missing a session. Lynch saw Transcendental Meditation as fundamental to his survival as an artist in Hollywood. “In 1984, my film Dune was released ...

Archaeologists have discovered long-lost ancient Egyptian tombs that were hiding beneath a stone well for more than 4,000 years. Working at a site outside of Cairo, they uncovered four ancient ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient Egyptian who treated pharaohs more than 4,000 years ago. The well-preserved burial site belonged to Teti Neb Fu, believed to have been a ...

Albeit that probably isn't the hardest task considering what a great horror setting the dark winding and forgotten corridors of an ancient pyramid make—I wish settings like this one were ...

A Copper Age burial in Spain holds the largest collection of beads ever found ― enough to require a tonne of shellfish as raw material.

However, despite laws and social norms that severely limited women’s autonomy, “Kyladitisses” shows that they still found ways to be influential in ancient Greek society. The idea that women ...

Many of the tombs featured a range of artifacts that could redefine what scholars know about ancient Egypt ... could link the tomb’s owners to the Egyptian military. Inside pieces of Queen ...

To honor the life of their father David Lynch, who died last week at age 78, Jennifer, Austin, Riley and Lula Lynch will host a “worldwide group meditation” on Monday, which would have been ...