Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic ... “They record all aspects of Sumerian life, and above all they name real people, their names, their jobs,” he said.

The "Dead Sea Scrolls" exhibit, announced at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, features ancient Jewish ...

The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again?

Glory to Ram’ is the leitmotif of culture here. Here kings had proudly sought to imbibe the virtues symbolised by Ram by ...

Instead she looked to the internet, writes journalist Leah Sottile in her new book, Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False ...

A newly uncovered ancient Egyptian tomb is shedding light ... hieroglyphic text painted on bricks at the entryway, leaving the name unreadable, according to a news release issued March 27 by ...

No fewer than seven Queen Cleopatras ruled ancient Egypt during the Ptolemaic period, as a new book explains, writes David ...

The three-year-old could have picked up any other stone or sea shell on her family trip but instead, the toddler found an ancient amulet ... life would hatch. "Its name in Egyptian derives from ...

Archaeologists have confirmed that a “beautiful stone ... in Egypt. Ancient Egyptians associated dung beetles rolling balls of dung with their Sun god rolling the “Sun disk” across the celestial ...

A sculpted footprint of the Buddha, as well as friezes depicting the Hindu elephant-headed god Ganesh and the supreme ... consultants on top of an ancient stone fortress on the edge of Mrauk ...

A mummy, known as the “Untouchable,” was discovered nearly a century ago in the Valley of the Kings region of the ancient ... hastily written inside his tomb, which may be the name “Bashiri ...

Armchair sleuths will have you convinced that Justin Bieber is really a lizard and Stevie Wonder isn’t actually blind. Ellie ...