Scientists have identified the fossilized remains of the oldest-known ant - a winged insect with fearsome scythe-like jaws ...

Archaeologists in Jordan have documented a carved inscription bearing the name of Ramesses III, an Egyptian pharaoh who ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a new report. The hell ant, which was preserved in limestone, is a member ...

According to the New Testament, Jesus was buried in a new tomb out of rock. (Matthew 27:60, Mark 15:46; Luke 23:53) in a garden near the crucifixion site (John 19:41), just outside the city (John ...

Worldwide, birthdays were first acknowledged in ancient Egypt in 3000 BC, where the Pharaoh reveled in his birthday in a huge ...

A new analysis of classical medical texts suggests dementia was extremely rare in ancient Greece and Rome 2,000 to 2,500 ...

On the road to Damascus, Saul of Tarsus, who we would later come to know as St. Paul, saw a blinding light and from it heard ...

The burial chamber — which was found in January and features many decorated rooms and mudbrick vaults — is the second major ...

At least in the capital, Damascus, the Christian holiday festivities were protected and joyfully observed. Religious ...

At the National Museum of Damascus, glass cases hold tantalizing glimpses of the wealth of ancient Palmyra. They include ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

New research has revealed that the cosmological model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus, the renowned European Renaissance ...