There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out ...

Because these objects are anchored to specific historical contexts, their ages provide a reliable snapshot of the period. The ...

The New Kingdom, which lasted from 1550 to 1070 BCE, was Egypt's peak of power, wealth, and territorial expansion, the era of ...

New data from radiocarbon dating is offering deeper insights into ancient Egypt and its relationship with the volcanic ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans built astonishing monuments like the Lighthouse of Alexandria and the Hanging Gardens of ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...

But for every off-putting ancient hygiene practice, there are countless others that don’t sound so bad. Ancient Egyptians ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...