Explore the story behind Egypt’s mysterious Black Pyramid, built by Pharaoh Amenemhat III. Once a grand project, it ended in ...

Mohenjo-Daro was one of two prominent cities of the ancient Indus Valley civilization ... A former capital of Egyptian dynasties, a Greek religious and cultural center, the first English foothold ...

In many African cultures, the Griot is more than a storyteller. The Griot is the living archive of the community — a guardian ...

Early Egyptians (prior to about 3100 B.C.) and other ... well out of sync with the seasons due to the 11-day lag. Other ancient calendars, dating to the Sumerians 5,000 years ago, simply divided ...

CAIRO, May 25 (Xinhua) -- An Egyptian archaeological mission has uncovered a mudbrick building dating to the 6th-7th centuries in the Manqabad area of Assiut Governorate, south of Cairo ...

In a 2017 study in the American Journal of Human Genetics, researchers looked at the ancient DNA of five Canaanites who lived between 3,650 and 3,750 years ago and who were buried in Sidon, an ...

Lee (M.86.330) The scarab has been deified during Ancient Egypt. Its shape was related to the god Jepri in the graphic representation (human body and scarab face). However, normally, people ...

Made of wood and leather, this artificial toe, found in an ancient Egyptian tomb affixed to a noblewoman, is the oldest known prosthetic appendage. Shutterstock The world’s oldest known ...

Previous research tracking the CCR5 mutation narrowed its origin down to European groups between 5250 and 1690 B.C., and there were spikes when more people had the mutation during the Black Death ...