New research suggests the engraving, which shows an elite individual sitting in a boat, may be up to 5,100 years old ...

Wadlow had been reported ill in a hotel in Manistee with an infected foot.

The urge to leave your mark for posterity is nothing new, as ancient Greek graffiti carved into an Egyptian Temple clearly ...

The "intriguing new" rock engraving was found on the west bank of the Nile River near Aswan in November 2022, during a survey ...

The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says the country will first seek diplomatic solutions but will retaliate with ...

A new Eurobarometer report shows that, across the EU, 40% of citizens identify a lack of affordable housing as an immediate and urgent problem in the place where they live.

Researchers in the UK have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived more than ...

The same force that paved the way for the Greek Golden Age sowed the seeds of its political collapse: individualism.

Sam Kean has gone back in time, at least in practice, for his new book "Dinner with King Tut." He talks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about "experimental archeology" and learning about ancient cultures.

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented ...