In a study published today in the journal PNAS, researchers investigated over 1,000 human remains from the Nile River Valley, ...

When Napoleon embarked upon a military expedition into Egypt in 1798, he brought with him a team of scholars, scientists, and artists. Together, they produced the monumental “Description de l’Égypte,” ...

No historical evidence exists to tell us who sang the first song, or made the first rhythmic sounds that resembled music.

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out in early Chinese farming settlements since the Neolithic Period. Now, a ...

The burial itself was discovered in 2018, but experts only just found the remnants of the deceased’s funeral celebration.

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

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The hunt for the Garden of Eden has usually belonged to theologians and dreamers, not software coders. Yet a computer ...

The maximum totality of the total solar eclipse in August 2027 will last 6 minutes and 23 seconds, but you'll need to travel ...

Jet2 has revealed more exciting news for customers today, by announcing the launch of flights and holidays to Egypt, as well ...

A new ancient DNA study argues that the familiar house cat is a relative latecomer, carried from North Africa into Europe ...

Walters Art Museum will open a free exhibit in April on the work of Douriean Fletcher, the jewelry designer for the “Black ...