A recent excavation near the village of Borimechkovo in Bulgaria’s Pazardzhik region unearthed the remains of a Late Roman village that was suddenly consumed by fire in the mid-fourth century AD and s ...

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 ...

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 ...

The discovery of two sets of iron ankle shackles at an ancient Egyptian gold mine reveals forced labor.

Replica statues of 25th Dynasty Egyptian rulers, also known as the Black Pharaohs. Credit: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra docuseries has caused an ...

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Archaeologists uncover an ancient burial site with Egyptian, Greek, and Roman graves at Tell Ruwad Iskandar, Egypt. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient ...