One group of historians offers a sanitised version of the Mughal Empire. Another gravitates towards vile condemnation. The ...

More than 100 objects never before seen in North America are headed to San Francisco's de Young Museum in "Treasures of the ...

A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom. Researchers analyzed artifacts tied to Pharaoh Ahmose, gaining rare access to ...

Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad.

For centuries, Christianity introduced by European missionaries reshaped the spiritual landscape of Africa. Among the many ...