One of the most rewarding objects in the night sky is the Pleiades open cluster. Known as M45, the Seven Sisters, or Subaru, ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

Found at a beach in northern Poland, the nearly ten-inch-long artifact could be up to 2,500 years old. It had been lodged inside a lump of clay New Research Researchers previously assumed that ...

Apr. 2, 2025 — An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid ...

Ohio is host to a plethora of ancient earthworks. Plan your trip to three cities with striking mounds, great eats and ...

White brings her bluegrass to Petit Campus, Minogue her dance tunes to the Bell Centre and Marillion their prog rock to ...

River Thames, trained by Todd Pletcher, is the 5-2 favorite in the Blue Grass morning line Muhimma, trained by Brad Cox, is the 9-5 favorite in Monday's Ashland, a key prep race for the Kentucky ...

New DNA research shows that half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya, who lived in Ukraine 5,000 years ago. For about half the people alive today, the story of where they ...

Put away your sweatshirts and pack the scarves away until the holiday season because April is just around the corner and, in ...

Liam McEvoy, a fourth-year UC Berkeley student majoring in anthropology and minoring in Egyptology, has spent much of his time on campus studying the cultural significance of the Egyptian blue lotus ...

An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that mimicked these diagnoses, researchers have concluded, settling a four ...