On a lakeside peninsula in Eastern Africa, archaeologists have found clues about a society that lived there over 3 million years ago.

Taking time off in the summer was important in ancient Greek and Roman times. But some found it hard to detach from work and ...

When we read about the Greco-Roman world, we often hear the stories of famous and wealthy men and women. But the letters of ...

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research led by the Francis Crick ...

Explore the fascinating history of New Year’s resolutions, from ancient Babylonian traditions to modern-day practices.

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Possibly a darker, psychological take on ancient curses and resurrection ... While official details are scarce, we can make educated guesses about what Cronin’s The Mummy will explore. The film will ...

Professor Mike Parker Pearson, lead author of the research, explained how the site may have been built to unify people across ancient Britain. The research, published in Archaeology International ...

The archeologists in Egypt have made the discovery of 13 ancient mummies with gold tongues and nails in a cemetery at the site of Oxyrhynchus. The time when the team dug down to the bottom of a ...

Serving the nation since 1947 by providing an accurate, objective, uninterrupted flow of news to the people, the national news service is pursuing a comprehensive strategy to transform the existing ...

Archaeologists have discovered an inscribed silver amulet that one theologian now says may rewrite the history of Christianity north of the Alps mountain range. The inscribed amulet was found ...

"A gold medal of mummies from the Ptolemaic era [were found] as well as a number of ancient Egyptian texts and landscapes….represent[ing] a great addition to the history of the region and ...