Excavations revealed the manuscript within a sealed sarcophagus, and it featured early hieroglyphic writings that held the ...

Island are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to unsolved mysteries The world’s most mysterious secrets Ancient ...

These results show that many more medicines derived from natural products remain to be found,” one professor said.

According to a Colombia One report, Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced that British archaeologists from the University of Manchester made a slew of new discoveries in the Nile’s ...

Evidence of textile workshops demonstrates that girls’ labour was valued enough to be documented in administrative records ...

Thousands of newly discovered fragments, which once adorned a high-status Roman building, offer an unprecedented glimpse into ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

The ancient Greeks were incredibly talented mathematicians—but they rarely used numbers in their ... the Greek alphabet used 24 letters. ... likely adopted from the Egyptians through trade.

Bad dreams scared the ancient Egyptians, who feared that evil spirits or demons would visit them in their sleep. The oldest recorded nightmare dates back 4,000 years, when writing letters to ...

The ancient Phoenician script had a crucial role in the history of the Greek alphabet. As the ancient Greeks themselves affirmed, ... This name comes from the first four letters of the Arabic script, ...