Jan. 8, 2025 — Researchers have unearthed two fossils, named Punk and Emo, revealing that ancient molluscs were more complex and adaptable than previously ...

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More than a dozen ancient gold tongues have been discovered in a cemetery at the site of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 13 ancient mummies with gold tongues and ...

The chamber holds a stone coffin engraved with the physician’s name and titles, which include "director of medicinal plants" and "chief dentist" Sonja Anderson Piece by piece, experts carefully ...

The ancient Egyptians celebrated the new year in a variety of ways, including having feasts, giving gifts, and exposing statues of gods to sunlight so they could be "regenerated." When you ...

Frozen Antarctica Walloped by Climate Extremes. Credit: Horacio Lyon / Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0 An ancient hidden “world” has been uncovered deep beneath the thick ice of Antarctica. Named Lake Enigma, ...

The quest will take you through the sights and sounds of Ancient Greece. Help the children by playing games, watching fun animations and learning about the lives of the Ancient Greeks. There's so ...

Karl Mischke … in discussing the origin of the Arabic numerals, points out that the Roman numerals from 1 to 10 originated from the primitive custom of reckoning on the fingers of the two hands ...

The Greeks pretty much invented the theatre. Thousands of people packed the hillside arena of ancient Athens to watch plays by famous writers like Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. The Greeks ...

Archaeologists have discovered an inscribed silver amulet that one theologian now says may rewrite the history of Christianity north of the Alps mountain range. The inscribed amulet was found ...

Researchers have deciphered a mysterious inscription hidden within an ancient amulet, uncovering fascinating new insights into the early history of Christianity. The small, silver amulet was ...