Apr. 2, 2025 — An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid ...

Archaeologist David Edwards theorizes that the Kushites first rose to prominence as an ancient civilization by projecting their military might and trading with other peoples. Like the Egyptians, the ...

The tomb was found within an ancient Egyptian necropolis in Abydos. The burial is located about 23 feet (7 meters) underground and contains a limestone burial chamber covered with mudbrick vaults ...

The mummy of a first-century-B.C. individual found in Egypt was not pregnant and did not have cancer, according to a new CT study.

The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region — present-day Tunisia and northeastern Algeria — shows that Stone Age populations who lived there more than 8,000 ...

Pyramids constructed by the Kushites, also known as Nubian Pyramids ... The 25th Dynasty, introduced their own pyramids, showcasing their cultural and political connection to ancient Egypt. The ...

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 ...

Over a million years ago, ancient human ancestors sat down to shave flakes off bones, producing a tool with a carefully created sharp edge. According to Jackson Njau, an archaeologist at ...

Minecraft's ancient cities are eerie underground structures covered in sculk and protected by the Warden, but many players still seek them out for the loot they offer. Since this is the case ...