The modern name comes from a Greek version of the ancient Egyptian name Abedju. The size of the 3,600-year-old limestone tomb chamber (shown from below and above) suggests that it was likely ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient world slept only 6.5 hours a night.

Miriam Leonard's lecture at CSMVS explored Freud's fascination with antiquities, particularly Egyptian artifacts, and their ...

The team has uncovered and photographed scenes that reveal how ancient Egyptians depicted and worshipped their gods and how they conceived of the universe through the astronomical objects and ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a "major" 3,400-year-old town dating to the New Kingdom that was possibly built by King Tutankhamun's father and later added to by Ramesses II ...

Researchers found the older ancient Egyptian settlement while they were studying the Greek one. An unexpected discovery of mudbrick dating to the New Kingdom (circa 1550 to 1070 B.C.) revealed the ...

Dr Brandenburg also argued that Mars once had an Earth-like climate home to animal and plant life, and any intelligent life would have been about as advanced as the ancient Egyptians on Earth.

Dire wolf pups born using gene-edited ancient DNA CRISPR used to match dire wolf genes in grey wolf embryos Dallas firm Colossal leads species restoration breakthrough ...

The Persians used the ancient weapon of religious superstition to conquer Egypt. Painting by Pierre-Marie Lenoir (1872) Credit: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain The cats that did not protect the ...

Ancient beliefs, behaviors and norms – what archaeologists call culture – were fundamentally integrated into technological solutions in this part of Peru in ancient times. Isolating and ...

By extracting ancient DNA from 13,000-year-old and 72,000-year-old fossils and merging it with that of modern gray wolves, scientists have created animals that look and behave like their long ...

Now, they believe they have uncovered the secret of an ancient Egyptian ritual inside Tutankhamun’s tomb. Dr Nicholas Brown, an Egyptologist at Yale University, claims that some of the treasures ...