A newly discovered altar buried near the center of the ancient Maya city of Tikal is providing fresh insight into the ...

Archaeologists in Jordan have documented a carved inscription bearing the name of Ramesses III, an Egyptian pharaoh who ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

In a one-of-a-kind discovery, archaeologists working within the Saqqara necropolis (south of Cairo, Egypt) found a pink ...

Pelletier discovered seven previously undocumented messages carved into the 3,300-year-old Luxor Obelisk in Paris.

In the Egyptian ... walls, the columns, and the ceilings, all of it.” The team has uncovered and photographed scenes that reveal how ancient Egyptians depicted and worshipped their gods and ...

A rollover crash in Putnam County on Thursday afternoon, April 10, prompted an hours-long road closure as emergency crews worked to clear the scene. The wreck happened at around 2:41 p.m. in the area ...

Wall Street stocks resumed their free fall Thursday while the dollar stumbled as persistent concerns about the economic fallout from President Donald Trump's trade wars put a fast end to the prior ...

The symbol was popular in Ancient Egyptian culture and was found at a site known for its archaeological significance.

But more than a century later, a researcher has presented a new theory about the clay artifacts: They were part of a funerary ritual dedicated to Osiris, the ancient Egyptian god of the afterlife.

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