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

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

A study led by Professor Dan Lawrence, of Durham University in the UK, found that across 10 millennia, more unequal ...

Depicted by the statue is the Buddha Amitābha, a prominent figure in Mahayana Buddhism.

A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...

Remains of what may be the ancient capital city of the Kingdom of Lyncestis have been found in North Macedonia.

A recent archaeological discovery in Ukraine has rewritten the timeline for when human beings began using ivory to construct ...

Eventually, some ancient Egyptians likely welcomed the cats home as adorable pet companions, they say. The domestication and spread of animals driven by cults is not uncommon. For instance, previous ...

Tikal is a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of Guatemala—far flung from Mexico’s ancient city of Teotihuacan. The ...

A new study unveils the potential reason children participated in creating prehistoric cave art. In prehistoric societies, ...

We're living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it's continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study researchers compared house size distributions from ...

A newly discovered settlement in the north-western Nile delta was built by the Egyptian New Kingdom perhaps 3500 years ago and included a temple dedicated to pharaoh Ramesses II ...