Sealed inside a rocky tomb for over four millennia, an Egyptian skeleton has just revealed a hidden chapter of ancient ...

Rival magicians in Victorian England both claim they can teleport. Is this all illusion, asks Emily H. Wilson, as she ...

In an astonishing discovery, intact frescoes have been unearthed beneath the white walls of the Church of Saint Nicholas in ...

A scholar has recently discovered a previously unknown Sumerian myth inscribed on a long-overlooked 4,400-year-old tablet.

Aeneas, named after a hero from Greek and Roman mythology, can calculate when inscriptions were carved and predict lost text ...

The story begins in 1835, when the first of what would become thousands of dams was built. These human-made reservoirs store ...

Archaeologists have uncovered rare artifacts from the Paleolithic era at Ulukoy Cave in Türkiye’s southeastern Mardin province, revealing the earliest known evidence of human activity in northern ...

New research has revealed that the first kiss in recorded history took place at least 4,500 years ago in Mesopotamian ...

And more recent research suggests beer was accidentally discovered as early as 10,000 B.C.E., or over 12,000 years ago by the ...

Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the teeth of a remarkably well-preserved skeleton found in a sealed funeral pot in an Egyptian tomb site dating to between 4,495 and 4,880 years ago.

Following a spiritual hymn, Syriac politician Bahjat Barsom addressed the crowd, denouncing violations against Christians in ...

For most of human history, governments have taxed goods crossing their borders. Tariffs — taxes levied on imports or exports ...