A long-standing mystery surrounding the Mayan civilization's collapse has been solved. Scientists now believe a ...

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

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

After winning his first Oscar, Tom Cruise kept repeating the same 2-word phrase. It’s a lesson in emotional intelligence ...

Over the years people have become aware about Kalash who claim Greek ancestry, but in South Asia there are other tribes ...

In an expansive conversation, Egypt’s ambassador to India Kamel Zayed Galal speaks about the world’s largest museum dedicated ...

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

The Indus Valley Civilization, one of the world's oldest, was a thriving society in what is now Pakistan and northwest India for some 2,000 years. Then it was gone—without signs of war or conquest. A ...

Peru's Ministry of Culture has confirmed a groundbreaking discovery that rewrites the history of ancient astronomy in the Americas. Archaeologists working at the Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex ...

The British Museum is well placed to refer to the discovery of the Library of Ashurbanipal as “one of the most important” ...

The excavation also turned up human remains.

The museum's suspension of on-site ticket sales is primarily a response to the high volume of visitors. Such measures are common in popular exhibitions, especially when they showcase culturally and ...