Queen Nefertiti co-ruled with Pharaoh Akhenaten, whose reign transformed ancient Egypt's religion and gender roles in the ...

A PLOS ONE paper places Ahmose's reign over Egypt decades after the famous Thera volcanic eruption in the Aegean Sea, with ...

Meet Tetinebefou—the wizard-doctor, priest, and royal dentist—whose newly discovered tomb reveals dazzling secrets about ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the ...

A middle-aged woman continuously shed tears before the golden mask of the boy pharaoh excavated from the darkness 3,300 years ...

Rise and Fall (BBC Two) is that it has nothing to do with Sir Kenneth Clark’s 1969 series Civilisation, despite the BBC ...

Ancient Persians believed the sky was blue because it reflected a massive sapphire beneath the Earth, giving the stone cosmic symbolism. Kings, priests, and rulers wore sapphires to signal wisdom, ...

For decades, archaeologists believed that cats first started living alongside early farming communities in the Levant — covering parts of today’s Middle East and eastern Mediterranean — around 9,500 ...

The Centro Storico (historic center) of Turin corresponds to the ancient Roman settlement established in the first century ...

The moments when four ancient worlds faced disaster are brought to life in an epic new series exploring Rome, Egypt, the ...

Leading London antiquities gallery David Aaron Ltd has unveiled a masterfully carved Egyptian statue, long misattributed and overlooked, now rediscovered and returned to its former glory as the ...

From the Minoan royal road to the Ridgeway, ancient roads still exist today showing how past civilizations built networks ...