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LIMA (Reuters) -Archaeologists in coastal Peru have discovered the 5,000-year-old remains of a woman who may have belonged to the upper echelons of the ancient Caral civilization, a find they say ...
The power of Ramses III spread over key routes and was marked by rock inscriptions in his name—one has been found in Wadi Rum ...
In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...
Nearly 200 years ago, a 3,300-year-old obelisk from Egypt was gifted to France. It now stands in the heart of Paris at Place ...
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 ...
Once the largest country in Africa, Sudan was divided into two distinct regions: the predominantly Arab-Muslim north and the ...
On Tuesday, April 29, author Emily A. Weinberg will be at the Putney Library to discuss life in ancient Egypt and share ...
Historian teams up with Chris Tomlin and Hillsong’s Ben Fielding to adapt rare music dating back to the third century.
The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history. Archaeologists from Egypt and the U.S. unearthed the tomb ...
A hieroglyphic inscription bearing the name of Pharaoh Ramses III has been discovered in southern Jordan.