Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the remains of a woman from an ancient civilization. The discovery was made within an ...

A worker arranges salted fish at a factory in Port Said, Egypt, on April 19 ... Sham El-Nessim traces its origins to Shemu, an ancient Egyptian harvest festival celebrating the life-giving ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

This is a painting that dates back thousands of years to Ancient Egypt. Artworks like this tell us a lot about the time and place that they come from. This painting shows a farmworker using a shaduf.

Though lesser-known beyond Egypt's borders, this 5,000-year-old ... Sham El-Nessim traces its origins to Shemu, an ancient Egyptian harvest festival celebrating the life-giving Nile flood and ...