According to Kholoud Mohamed Shawky, a classicist from Alexandria, Egypt, who is a Ph.D. candidate: the scarab is “a living symbol of eternal rebirth.” Dr Richard Marranca met Kholoud at the ARCE ...

The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.

In many ways, the conflict between Iran and the U.S. and Israel has been decades in the making. Ramtin Arablouei, host of NPR's podcast "Throughline," explains how.

Why are Trump and Israel attacking Iran? Answers are complex, but this timeline of U.S.-Iran relations offers some context.

The first African Diaspora centered interactive web platform that weaves together the histories of African peoples and ...

Australia’s history did not begin with colonization. Tens of thousands of years before empires rose elsewhere, Aboriginal Australians were living, adapting, and building culture across the continent.

A researcher claims the Great Pyramids may predate ancient Egypt and could be the work of a lost civilization with advanced ...

A small copper tool found in a museum drawer is now confirmed as the oldest rotary metal drill in ancient Egypt, dating back 5,300 years.

In the dim corridors of Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, where New Kingdom pharaohs were buried more than three millennia ago, visitors have long left their marks. Predominant among the graffiti are Greek ...

A small copper object first unearthed more than a century ago is now prompting archaeologists to rethink the technological capabilities of Ancient Egypt. Researchers say the artefact, originally ...

The oldest known pieces of sewn clothing have been discovered in a cave in Oregon, potentially rewriting all of human history. Researchers from the US uncovered pieces of animal hide stitched together ...

A long-overlooked Ancient Egyptian tool is now reshaping what archaeologists know about the origins of human engineering. A tiny copper-alloy tool discovered all the way back in the 1920s may prove to ...