Ancient Chinese poetry is often nonfiction, including first-person accounts of everyday life and observations of nature, the authors explained. That’s why the poems served as a reasonable metric ...

His unexplored tomb at Nemrut Dağ may show us more about death and worship in ancient Turkey. Several colossal heads that once stood in the mausoleum of Antiochus I of Commagene now lie in front ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Ahrensburgian-type stone tools discovered at South Cuidrach on the Isle of Skye represent the most northerly evidence of this Late Upper Paleolithic culture in ...

A 40-mile stretch of a long-gone branch of the Nile may explain why the ancient monuments were built where they were. Children ride a donkey near the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A monumental stone relief depicting King Ashurbanipal, flanked by the deities Ashur and Ishtar, was uncovered in the throne room of Nineveh’s North Palace ...

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.

When it was made: Around 1473 B.C. This amulet, shaped like a scarab beetle, was discovered in the tomb of an ancient Egyptian noblewoman named Hatnefer. But the charm, which was intended to ...

Their slogan, “Not simply a matter of faith, but a matter of fact,” is illuminated through what is uncovered along the grounds of an ancient city; so ancient that pre-dated Jerusalem’s old city.

A finger-sized fossil has shed new light on the diversity of ancient arthropods. More than 500 million years ago, many major animal groups first appeared on Earth in a burst of evolution known as the ...

Archaeologists uncovered a third major ancient fort in the northern Sinai Peninsula. The Tell Abu Seifi site offered prime protection of Egypt’s eastern border. Limestone-paved roads and a moat ...