Cairo’s Arabic name, Al-Qahirah, translates to “The Conqueror” or “The Vanquisher.” The Fatimid general Jawhar al-Siqilli ...

RESEARCHERS who claim to have discovered a “lost city” deep below the pyramids now believe it could be the site of the ...

Despite centuries of efforts to map our planet precisely, our view of the world will always be political and imperfect.

There are countless adventure movies for fans to choose from, and while some may be older, that doesn't mean they aren't ...

El Argar had a centralized system for the production and distribution of its pottery vessels and clay objects, all made from material sourced from a single location ...

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

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For the first time in more than a century, since Howard Carter unearthed the final resting place of King Tut, Egyptologists have uncovered a decorated royal tomb in the Luxor area, west of the ...

A metal brooch and artefacts representing the gods in animal forms were also found as were a number of beads, some of them plated in gold and dating to the beginning of ancient Egypt’s 26th Dynasty.

The details revealed by this new research are helping to fill in the gaps of what was known about the culture and society built by the ancient settlers of Ischia ... Etruscans living on the mainland ...

Because the now-subterranean palace inspired Renaissance artists, experts say the study of these pigments can give insights into ancient and ... of the Roman Empire—the Domus Aurea, or ...