Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human ...

Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research ...

The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at ...

Island are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to unsolved mysteries The world’s most mysterious secrets Ancient ...

Elephantine, a town at Egypt's southern frontier near modern-day Aswan, provides a unique window into the urban life of some ...

Thousands of newly discovered fragments, which once adorned a high-status Roman building, offer an unprecedented glimpse into ...

An excavation in London has revealed one of the largest collections of painted Roman wall plaster to be discovered in the ...

It is believed the frescoes once decorated at least 20 internal walls of a high-status Roman building between AD 40 and 150.

Because it wasn’t just used for writing; it was also used to make furniture and baskets, shoes, boats, and even could be eaten. Moreover, in the complex Egyptian cosmogony, the typical growing ...

Like Roman numerals, their system borrowed letters; like the Arabic numerals we still use, it only needed one symbol for each decimal place. In the 6th century BCE, the Greek alphabet used 24 letters.

Evolution of the alphabet. Credit: Youtube/UsefulCharts In the ninth century BCE, Greek contact with the Phoenician script led to the development of the first true alphabet. According to legend, a ...