In 1862, an American antiquities dealer was in an Egyptian marketplace, squinting at a scroll. The scroll was written in hieratic, a type of ancient Egyptian cursive, and the dealer, Edwin Smith, wasn ...

Ancient Egyptian person: Well it’s not! We need to know exactly when the river will flood, so that we plant our crops at the right time. That way, we can take advantage of all the nutrients left ...

Child: The ancient Egyptian civilisation began 5,000 years ago and lasted 3,000 years! It was located along the River Nile in north-east Africa. I better write this down! Oh! I’ve lost my pen.

Well, one physicist tried to figure that out. VICE reports that Seamus Blackley, more famous as the man behind Xbox, had the chance of a lifetime to bake some bread using 4,500-year-old yeast that was ...

Construction on a wall at the ancient Hill of Tara site led by the Office of Public Works has been ongoing for more than a decade, with no end in sight. The wall, which surrounds the churchyard and ...

The Great Wall was an ancient Chinese military defense project that played a crucial role in maintaining border stability, facilitating agricultural development, protecting communication routes ...

In June 2017, Liverpool agreed on a club-record 34 million pounds fee for Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah from Roma. Before his Liverpool transfer, Salah had played for Chelsea before joining Italy ...

The Great Wall was an ancient Chinese military defense project that played a crucial role in maintaining border stability, facilitating agricultural development, protecting communication routes, and ...

The term Egyptian cotton gets thrown around a lot as shorthand for very fancy sheets, but not all Egyptian cotton is created equal. Some sheets made from Egyptian cotton will be certified as such ...

This is believed to be the first ... Discovery of 'Punk' and 'Emo' Fossils Challenges Our Understanding of Ancient Molluscs Jan. 8, 2025 — Researchers have unearthed two fossils, named Punk and ...

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