Researchers surveyed the DNA of more than 200 cats spanning the last 9,000 years, including ancient Romanian cat remains, Egyptian cat mummies, and modern African wildcat specimens.

Volunteers were baffled recently when they unearthed not one but two ancient shoes at a historic British site. The discoveries were made at Magna, an Ancient Roman fort in Northumberland, in late May.

Translator speech translation technology was launched late 2014 starting with Skype Translator, and is available as an open API for customers since early 2016. It is integrated into the Microsoft ...

Publication date 1993 Topics Egyptian language -- Writing, Hieroglyphic, Egyptian language -- Grammar, Egyptian language -- Grammar, Egyptian language -- Writing, Hieroglyphic Publisher New York : ...

The so-called "Dragon Man" skull found in China in 1933 sheds light on the ancient human species the Denisovans, about whom scientists previously had little information.

he ancient royal tomb is thought to belong to an Egyptian leader who ruled over 3,600 years ago during a time of violence and instability the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said.

Coptic represents the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language, evolving from hieroglyphs and demotic into a form written with mostly Greek letters. This video traces the development of Coptic from ...

Optical remote sensing (RS) data suffer from the limitation of bad weather and cloud contamination, whereas synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can work under all weather conditions and overcome this ...

The pharaoh Ramesses II is one of the best known warrior rulers of ancient Egypt, famous for his military victories and great public works. He ruled Egypt for two-thirds of a century (roughly 1279 ...

Ancient alphabets and hieroglyphic characters explained; with an account of the Egyptian priests, their classes, initiation, and sacrifices by Ibn Waḥshīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, active 9th century. n ...

This article presents an integrated framework for multimedia access and analysis of ancient Maya epigraphic resources, which is developed as an interdisciplinary effort involving epigraphers (someone ...