In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

A French Egyptologist has uncovered seven secret messages hidden on Paris's Luxor Obelisk, revealing ancient Egyptian secrets ...

The 3,300-year-old monument has sat in the French capital's center for almost 200 years, but no one else noticed these ...

The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The ...

The modern name comes from a Greek version of the ancient Egyptian name Abedju. The size of the 3,600-year-old limestone tomb chamber (shown from below and above) suggests that it was likely ...

The team has uncovered and photographed scenes that reveal how ancient Egyptians depicted and worshipped their gods and how they conceived of the universe through the astronomical objects and ...

This illustration provided by researchers in April 2025 depicts a Denisovan male in Taiwan in the Pleistocene era about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago. (Cheng-Han Sun via AP) (Cheng-Han Sun ...

Their research was based on, not DNA, but a series of techniques collectively called ancient protein analysis, or paleoproteomics. This process involves extracting proteins from the bone and tooth ...

In particular, the project focuses on deciphering the names of associated ancient Egyptians, fulfilling the ancient aspiration of "causing their names to live." The talk will see Dr Ken Griffin, who ...

A newly discovered settlement in the north-western Nile delta was built by the Egyptian New Kingdom perhaps 3500 years ago ...

An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture, demonstrating the ...