Until now, historians knew of Tamil traders reaching Egyptian ports such as Berenike along the Red Sea. However, these newly studied inscriptions indicate that merchants did not merely dock, trade, ...

Meuse river delta resisted population shifts that transformed most of Europe — until they helped catalyse the expansion of ...

Ancient Egypt is known for pyramids and pharaohs, but several powerful civilizations within it rose and fell long before the ...

Ancient Egypt did not worship just one or two major gods. It built an entire pantheon of over 100 powerful deities, each representing forces of nature, creation, death, fertility, and kingship. From ...

Radishes originated in China thousands of years ago and gradually spread west. They became an important food of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. The radish did not spread throughout the rest of Europe ...