These bagpipes had mostly been hidden away in the backs of cupboards,” the Lowland and Border Pipers’ Society journal ...

The soul house, which dates to around 2055 to 1650 B.C.E., was originally excavated at Deir Rifa, a series of ancient ...

Curators at the National Museum of World Culture in Sweden recently invited a group of Zambian women to help understand the ...

A Brazilian tourist went viral after a video was posted of her bursting into tears on Princes Street after arriving in ...

Egyptian authorities announced that excavations in the Western Desert uncovered the remnants of an early Coptic city, ...

Archaeologists have discovered two Neolithic pyramids in west-central Poland built by people of the Funnelbeaker culture ...

The Egyptian locust is an invasive species in North America, though common throughout Europe and North Africa. The locusts can be voracious eaters.

A sinking boat is saved, a man in a pickle costume gives an impromptu concert, and other odd tales from local police and fire departments.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ancient Egyptian, who lived when the earliest pyramids were built ...

DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing evidence of the ties between two great cultures of the period, with a ...

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the potential ancestry of those who belonged to the enduring civilization.