Archaeologists in Peru said Thursday they found the 5,000-year-old remains of a noblewoman at the sacred city of Caral, ...

Archaeologists uncovered the carefully preserved remains of a noblewoman from the Caral civilization. They say it indicates women were valued members of the ancient society.

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

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 ...

Once the largest country in Africa, Sudan was divided into two distinct regions: the predominantly Arab-Muslim north and the ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient ... from Egypt and casts new light on a formative period of the civilization ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

The 1972 concert film Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii, back in cinemas this week, would change the way many thought of Pompeii.

Egypt continues to enchant high-profile travelers with its irresistible blend of ancient history, heartfelt hospitality, and ...

Göbekli Tepe, a 7,000-year-older site than the Egyptian pyramids, is the world’s oldest monumental structure, offering a new ...

Black Artists and Ancient Egypt 1876 – Now was on view at The Metropolitan Musuem on Fifth Avenue, in New York City from ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...