Over 150 scientists went with Napoleon Bonaparte when he invaded Egypt. They mapped pyramids, dissected mummies, and did more ...

At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched ...

The dig site contained many ancient tombs dating back to the Early Bronze Age from 3500-2000 BC, with one containing ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland say small cylinders made out of clay have the oldest known ...

The Australian Museum’s new exhibition, Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru, includes a complex inventory system ...

Sheep with deformed horns are among the more mysterious animal remains discovered at an ancient Egyptian burial site dating back to around 3700 BC. They also represent the oldest physical evidence ...

While excavating an ancient Egyptian necropolis near Luxor, archaeologists discovered a 3,800-year-old tomb containing multiple individuals who might represent different generations of the same ...

NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Carnegie Institution of Washington Ancient Egyptians were characterized by their religious and astronomical structures, like this ...

Their inventions in agriculture, especially irrigation, chnged human society siginificantly and paved the way for the subsequent civilizations. Ancient Egyptian Civilization is believed to have ...

Researchers at the Field Museum scan a mummified individual displayed in the Inside Ancient Egypt exhibition (Chicago Field Museum) Now CT X-ray scans of the coffin have thrown light on the ...

“The invention of writing marks the transition between prehistory and history, and the findings of this study bridge this divide by illustrating how some late prehistoric images were incorporated into ...