The Eye of Horus was a key symbol in ancient Egypt. It appeared on amulets and in tombs. Egyptians believed it offered divine ...

The greatest civilisations of humanity – today increasingly merged into the amorphous world of the globalised consumer ...

If you drew two pictures of something—say ... but vivid images captured from real life. “All these inventions just dovetailed perfectly by mid-century,” notes Douglas Heil, a professor ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

In a preprint paper, scientists concluded that the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt—believed to be the oldest of the ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo, has been delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises and a pandemic. At long ...

The ancient family have a strong ... narrow cylindrical neck and two handles – has a stamp bearing the name of Meritaten. This Egyptian royal woman is thought to have been the sister or ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

Their analysis shows that two ancient human groups, separated about 1.5 million years ago, mixed again 300,000 years ago. This mixing contributed 80% and 20% respectively to our current genetic ...