The modern name comes from a Greek version of the ancient Egyptian name Abedju. The size of the 3,600-year-old limestone tomb chamber (shown from below and above) suggests that it was likely ...

This Monochrome Monday is all about the art of wearing white without fading into the background. White is never just white.

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient world slept only 6.5 hours a night.

In the Egyptian city of Esna ... Larger-than-life scenes carved on each of its exterior walls offered ancient worshippers a mere hint of the resplendent painted reliefs that still cover nearly ...

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Italian depiction of the god Mercury (Greek: Hermes) wearing a petasos, a wide-brimmed ancient Greek hat. Credit: Sailko / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 When one thinks of ancient Greece, the ...

Dire wolf pups born using gene-edited ancient DNA CRISPR used to match dire wolf genes in grey wolf embryos Dallas firm Colossal leads species restoration breakthrough ...

A 90-foot “pyramid” submerged just off the coast of Japan is turning heads — and could shake up everything we thought we knew about ancient civilizations. Sitting 82 feet below sea level ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The painting and artistry is not what sticks out to archeologists at a newly discovered ancient altar in Guatemala. The likely ...

After a century-long wait, an excavation has finally revealed the only ancient theatre on Greece's Ionian Islands. Ancient Lefkada’s theatre was first discovered in 1901, but it took until now ...

What makes the find particularly unusual is the presence of Roman soldiers at all, as they were typically cremated until the third century. The battlefield nature of the site provides rare physical ...