Sotheby's is auctioning off an ancient stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments, estimated to be about 3000 years old ...

Coffins with inscriptions and jars containing human organs from ancient Egypt have been discovered in a 46-foot shaft. The ...

One of the most famous tombs in all of Egypt was holding a family secret: another body.

Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking ...

Archaeologists uncover the earliest known Maya salt works in Belize, revealing insights into ancient salt production and ...

Black cumin, also known as nigella, is a plant whose history dates back to antiquity. In the cultures of the Middle ...

A new study revives the old argument that ancient seals came before cuneiform, humanity's earliest known example of writing.

In a recent dig at the archaeological site known as Soii Havzak, scientists uncovered an array of stone tools, animal bones, ...

With funding from the National Science Foundation, a team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler ...

A team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler have excavated the earliest known ancient Maya salt works in southern Belize, as reported in the journal Antiquity. The team was ...

Her elaborate burial and title indicate that she held a significant position in the ancient Egyptian court. She was laid to ...

But since construction technology and materials have greatly evolved since the classical antiquity era and because we’re not ...