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

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

The Northshire Bookstore is hosting a Local Author Spotlight with Christa Jan Ryan, Simon Shadows, and Emily Weinberg. The ...

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

A structure blending Egyptian, Greek and Roman styles was discovered in the ancient city of Pelusium at the edge of the Nile ...

Ancient Egyptian stone vases carved from some of the hardest materials on Earth are now being scanned with modern technology, ...

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

Archaeology Gold sword scabbard discovered under toppled tree in Norway was likely 'sacrificed' by an elite warrior 1,500 years ago Ancient Egyptians Lion's head pendant: An ancient Egyptian board ...

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first ...

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” stuck to its abdomen, in a first-of-its-kind discovery.

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