Fishermen working off the coast of Taiwan have dredged up the jawbone of an ancient human ancestor that lived in the area around 200,000 years ago. The short, thick mandible has unusually large ...

Jewelry was an important part of ancient Egyptian culture. Excavation at the Karnak temple found a 2,600-year-old pot filled with gold jewelry, beads, and statues. The statues of Egyptian gods ...

They are among the 269 children who were sacrificed and buried around A.D. 1450 at two sites near Chan Chan, the ancient capital ... buried alongside the llamas. Fishermen at Pimentel Beach ...

First Royal Tomb Since King Tut Discovered Mohamed Abdel Badie—head of the Egyptian Antiquities Sector ... Wheat roots and seeds from ancient plants were also found. Sherif Fathy—Minister ...

What happened to the ancient Egyptians? The ancient Egyptian civilisation thrived for over three thousand years, but what happened to that once mighty empire and its people? What was life like for ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

The bodies of two Palestinian fishermen who Palestinian officials say were shot dead by Egyptian naval forces were returned to Gaza on Saturday, the territory’s ruling Islamist group Hamas said.