In the narrow passageways of prehistoric caves, where torchlight once flickered against limestone walls, a quiet record of ...

Mayan language experts have decoded the name of a previously unknown Maya queen on a stone inscription discovered last year.

Your brain transforms thoughts into speech using an ancient blueprint: the sensorimotor control system. New research reveals ...

Penn Engineers have developed a mathematical "Rosetta Stone" that translates atomic and molecular movements into predictions ...

Last week, Richmond's newest baseball team was named the Flying Mummies, but what is the story behind the Richmond's two ...

Scientists have successfully recreated a poignant sound of a past event, where Earth’s magnetic field dramatically flipped roughly 41,000 years ago, an effort that highlights a sharp interpretation of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, using the Rosetta stone. This ushered in a new craze for Egyptology and ...

The discovery of a sunken port off the coast of Egypt may offer a puzzle piece in the longstanding search for Cleopatra’s lost tomb and glimpses into the country’s ancient maritime activity, according ...

Archaeologists recently found an ancient copper workshop in the Sinai region of Egypt – the land tied to Moses and the Book of Exodus. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the ...