Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to ...

Scientists used X-rays and CT scans to explore a mummified crocodile, uncovering incredible details about its last meal, and ...

Use of colours in pre-historic era Humans have been long fascinated by colour, which has played a significant role since the ...

Although Ancient Egyptians typically removed organs when mummifying humans, crocodiles sacrificed to the crocodile god Sobek kept their innards intact, and this small deviation from tradition ...

Archaeologists often spend long amounts of time at a dig site, only to dig up garbage such as bottle caps and soda cans, or ...

According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to see who would be ruler of Egypt. During the fight, Seth mut ...

Archaeologists excavating at Saqqara Necropolis found a 4,300-year-old tomb of a poorly known prince with a unique fake door, ...

Setting out to analyze and classify a series of relics made from human bone, Taylor studied a total of 29 artifacts dated to ... Taylor notes that while certain ancient cultures in Central and ...

Found in Ukraine, the fragments show signs of human manipulation—though researchers still haven't ruled out the possibility ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...