However, careful reexaminations indicate the “little awl” is far more significant than originally believed—so much so that it ...

"Egyptian craftspeople mastered reliable rotary drilling more than two millennia before some of the best-preserved drill sets." ...

Researchers have identified what may be the earliest known metal drill from ancient Egypt-and it was hidden in plain sight.

Ancient Egypt did not worship just one or two major gods. It built an entire pantheon of over 100 powerful deities, each ...

Australia’s history did not begin with colonization. Tens of thousands of years before empires rose elsewhere, Aboriginal Australians were living, adapting, and building culture across the continent.

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

The headline takeaway is scale and sensitivity: the team reported identifying 81 distinct VOCs. Those compounds clustered into four main ingredient groups linked to ancient embalming practice - fats ...

The artifact comes from a Predynastic cemetery at Badari in Upper Egypt, specifically Grave 3932 (an adult male burial). It measures about 63 mm long and weighs roughly 1.5 grams, so small it was easy ...

The city of Naucratis was the earliest ancient Greek colony in Egypt that served as the connecting and trading post between ...

Archaeologists in South Sinai, Egypt, uncover ancient rock art, tools, and inscriptions showing thousands of years of human activity.

The British Museum removed references to “Palestine” from some ancient Middle East displays. The decision has drawn criticism ...