In fact, the oldest-known Egyptian mummy, dated around 3500 BC, is believed to have been created this way. The first "artificial" Egyptian mummies were made around 3000 BC. These early efforts at ...

Cylinder seals were used there starting in the mid-fourth millennium BC as part of an accounting system to track the production, storage and transport of various consumer goods, p ...

In a rare discovery, archaeologists have discovered strangely deformed sheep skulls in Hierakonpolis, Upper Egypt, dating to ...

A battery of forensic chemical tests carried out on a mummy that dated from 3,700-3,500 BC revealed the recipe and confirmed that it was developed far earlier and used more widely than previously ...

For 2.5 million years humans fed themselves by gathering plants and hunting wild animals that lived and bred without their ...

Neil MacGregor's story takes him to the end of the Ice Age, as the first farmers created objects to consume new foods, venerate new gods and even take a new look at sex ...

Environment Canada is warning of heavy rain on British Columbia's north coast, while several thousand BC Hydro customers ...

For more than 8,000 years, the desire for goods from distant countries has driven the evolution of complex international trade networks. These trade routes have left a lasting imprint in cultures ...

Lowered expectations offer the 2025 Cardinals a chance to experiment. They should take advantage of the flexibility. Let's ...

The Liberals and New Democrats spent Wednesday on the campaign trail appealing to renters struggling to make ends meet and ...

He based his estimate on recordings made by BC’s Weston Observatory—of which he is the director ... was estimated to be the equivalent of about 3,500 students jumping a foot, compared to a magnitude 2 ...