A rock shelter discovered in the southern Sinai Desert contains designs and inscriptions spanning a period of 10,000 years, ...

Archaeologists in South Sinai, Egypt, uncover ancient rock art, tools, and inscriptions showing thousands of years of human activity.

Luxor was my second major stop in Egypt, and after cramming as many iconic sites as possible into the past couple of days in ...

The city of Naucratis was the earliest ancient Greek colony in Egypt that served as the connecting and trading post between ...

Civilization 7 developers Firaxis have announced that they're aiming to drop a big update with in-depth feature overhauls dubbed Test of Time this spring.

Astrology, the belief that the positions of celestial bodies influence earthly events and human lives, has been a pervasive force across cultures and time periods. Learn more about the history of ...

Researchers at the Wisconsin Historical Society have uncovered 16 ancient canoes at the bottom of Lake Mendota, and they believe the oldest was crafted before the Great Pyramid of Giza was built in ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Archaeologists from Missouri State University are confirming the existence of a previously unknown ancient civilization hidden deep within the Brazilian Amazon, using advanced ...

An Italian archaeological mission has discovered the remains of a sun temple belonging to an ancient Egyptian king near Cairo, the Egyptian antiquities ministry said. The temple of King Nyuserre is ...

A cube-shaped skull that was discovered in Mexico provides rare insight into a 1,400-year-old Mesoamerican civilization’s social practices — which included deliberate deformation. The skull belonged ...

A series of century-scale droughts may have quietly reshaped one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. New climate reconstructions show that the Indus Valley Civilization endured repeated long ...

Harappa was one of the large cities created by the Indus Valley civilization. Smn121 via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 What happened to the Indus Valley civilization? The culture, also known as ...