Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to see who would be ruler of Egypt. During the fight, Seth mut ...

Once the largest country in Africa, Sudan was divided into two distinct regions: the predominantly Arab-Muslim north and the ...

These discoveries suggest that humans were able to live in rainforest before they left Africa, the home of our species. Until ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

Located at Tel Shiqmona in coastal Israel, the facility turned sea snails into purple dye at an industrial scale ...

Inside these chambers, the team found 10 mummies, two of them gilded. Other discoveries include an alabaster bust of ...

The New Jersey ex-pol’s wife was found guilty of serving as the lynchpin of a plot to leverage her husband’s lofty Senate post for hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of ...

Steve Barker's Stellenbosch FC will visit Fadlu Davids' Simba SC in Zanzibar in Sunday's CAF Confederation Cup semi-final ...

Some city hotels are a place to crash after a long day of museum-hopping and restaurant reservations. These ones are so much ...

It’s about the power of storytelling and creating narratives that resonate, inspire, and endure,” he adds. Although acting was initially a means of escape for Amir as a child, it evolved into ...

In the Egyptian city of Esna ... Larger-than-life scenes carved on each of its exterior walls offered ancient worshippers a mere hint of the resplendent painted reliefs that still cover nearly ...