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

West Virginia became the first state in the US this week to ban seven synthetic dyes in all food and beverages sold in the state. The ban also targets two food preservatives—butylated ...

Israel says it will hold parts of Gaza indefinitely and implement President Donald Trump’s proposal for the resettlement of ...

According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to see who would be ruler of Egypt. During the fight, Seth mut ...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An overnight Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City killed 23 people, as Arab ...

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 ...

New research has overturned everything we thought we knew about cat domestication. Forget the theory that cats simply ...

Latnija cave discoveries show Mesolithic humans crossed 100 km of sea to reach Malta 1,000 years earlier than previously ...