Prior to his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, the French ruler gave the saber to one of his most trusted generals, ...

In ancient Egypt, the goddess Hathor was not only known for her powers over love and fertility, but also for her close ...

A large ancient Egyptian fortress in the northern Sinai Desert had an elaborate landscape of 500 trees leading to its ...

Nawaf Nasr, 78, sits at home in Syria's Sweida district and recalls details of what he says was his past life before he died ...

An archaeological site that used to be a garbage dump has revealed the extraordinarily preserved mummy of an elite woman from ...

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way ...

An ancient Egyptian obelisk is revealing its long-lost secrets—all thanks to the keen eye of a local Egyptologist. After ...

Archaeologists discover a 5,000-year-old grave in Áspero, Peru, revealing an elite woman buried with a toucan beak, macaw ...

The woman—with skin, hair and nails still intact—belonged to the little-known Caral civilization, which flourished in Peru ...

His face is painted on the four sides of the altar, wearing necklaces, “ear spools” in his earlobes, and an elaborate headdress made with feathers. Houston says the ancient paintings are badly ...

Archaeologists in Peru uncovered a 5,000-year-old noblewoman’s remains, revealing women’s role in America's oldest ...

Using what appears to be AI-generated reconstructions, they, and others, have hypothesized that these structures are part of a legendary ancient city or even a prehistoric power-generating ...