Inscriptions found include notes on exercises by schoolchildren, religious texts, and certificates for the quality of ...

Amid Sudan’s war, the pyramids of Meroe sit in near silence as a lone caretaker and small team struggle to protect the ...

Egypt is a place where history is actually brought back to life among children. When kids stand in front of a pyramid that is ...

An unprecedented analysis of inscriptions on over 42,000 shards of pottery from an ancient Egyptian archaeological site has provided fresh insights into the lives of ordinary people two thousand years ...

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A demanding exhibition of the Spanish artist’s religious paintings is lifted by a room of stunning still lifes ...

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In the aftermath of Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event, one unlikely survivor rose to dominate a shattered world: Lystrosaurus. Now, a stunning fossil discovery—an ancient egg containing a ...

A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a 550-million-year-old sponge that likely lacked hard skeletal parts, explaining why ...

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first ...