A detailed study of nailed skulls reveals insights into funerary practices and the complex selection of individuals.
Lawrence M. Krauss, a physicist, is a senior fellow of the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy, President of the Origins ...
A British-Egyptian team of archeologists have found the first pharaoh's tomb in Egypt since King Tutankhamun's was found in 1922. The newly discovered tomb belonged to King Thutmose II, who reigned ...
The World’s Oldest Drinking Straws Unearthed From a 5,000-Year-Old Burial Mound: ‘Not as Simple as They Seem...' Over a ...
Archaeologists in Norway have discovered the world's oldest dated rune stone, part of a larger 2,000-year-old slab. The stone ...
Archaeologists are piecing together the world’s oldest known rune stone. It could shed light on the origins of early written Germanic languages and who inscribed it.
In Jewish tradition, kavod hamet, honoring the dead, is one of the greatest mitzvot. It is a mitzvah that cannot be repaid, a ...
After 27 years of enjoying the little house sparrows that lived in my huge pine tree, watching them rush to the feeder or splash in the bird bath, I went to fill the bird feeder, and it was still full ...
It was an appalling image: the coffins of four Israeli hostages, two of them young children, presented on stage in front of a ...
The monumental structures were of cult character and at the same time were probably places of assembly for the inhabitants of ...
An empty tomb, yet a groundbreaking find – archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the tomb of Thutmose II, a ruler ...
Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?