Every year brings new discoveries from ancient Egypt and 2024 was no exception. In this countdown, Live Science takes a look ...

Dandan-Oilik was once a thriving complex packed with Buddhist temples in the Taklimakan desert. What do we know now about ...

Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and suspect it may be of the famous Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII. The dig also ...

For ten nights, animal lovers brought their furry friends to “On Top of the Pyramid: The Civilization of Ancient Egypt” at the Shanghai Museum, where many examples of ancient cat imagery are ...

Over the past ten years or so, investigations of degraded or ‘ancient’ DNA have skyrocketed. By extracting DNA fragments from diverse sources —from human teeth and faeces to soil samples and ...

The Google Maps Platform is how third-parties can develop with Google Maps, and the company is now expanding its free usage limits. As of today, the platform is used by “over 10 million websites ...

Other archaeologists think it is likely someone else. A small statue discovered under a temple wall at the site of an ancient Egyptian city may depict Cleopatra VII, the Egyptian queen who ...

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Archeologists have discovered a 4,500-year-old ramp in Egypt that might have been used to build the Great Pyramid and others. Experts have long wondered and hypothesized how ancient Egyptians managed ...

A tablet bearing a previously unknown ancient script has been discovered in the Caucasus region, a study has reported. The book-sized tablet—made of basalt, a type of volcanic rock—features 60 ...

the ancient Egyptians identified 36 groups of stars in the night sky and used their positions to gauge the hour. Known as decans, each one was associated with an Egyptian god, and the most favored ...

Stonehenge, Machu Picchu, Pompeii, Angkor Wat, the Acropolis: Even if you’ve never visited these famous ancient ruins, you know about them ... s weather-worn pyramids were built before the famous ...