The remains of a 3,200-year-old military barracks were recently unearthed in Egypt. The barracks contained a vast collection ...

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Ramses the Great is credited with expanding Egypt's reach as far as modern Syria to the east and Sudan to the south.

Egyptian archaeologists have announced that they recently discovered a bronze sword bearing the symbol of King Ramesses II, the pharaoh mentioned in the Book of Exodus.

which is one of the largest such sites in the Mediterranean and includes the remains of an ancient Greek colony founded in the 7th century BC. The discovery was on the same site where 107 Roman ...

Between 1550 and 30 B.C., many ancient Egyptian paintings and sculptures depicted men and women wearing small, conical adornments on top of their heads. The type of activities people did while ...

Aotearoa New Zealand's true ancient species are animals like Kākāpō, small wrens, bats and freshwater limpets, not recent Aussie immigrants like kiwi, moa and takahē. This is the conclusion ...

In that glacial sample from the Himalayas, scientists have now identified more than 1,700 ancient viruses, though they note that these species do not infect humans. Their findings, tracing how the ...

As she told The Guardian, she sees in these cave etchings direct echoes back to still more ancient symbols — including an 'open-angle' symbol seen carved into Blombos cave in South Africa ...