Research on vanishing coastlines in Egypt offers solutions for protecting coastal cities, including those in California
A new USC study reveals a dramatic surge in building collapses in the ancient Egyptian port city of Alexandria, directly ...
History-making tomb and first-of-its kind fortune-telling spoon: See recent discoveries
In a Polish forest, metal detectorists discovered a Roman spatha sword, dating back over 1,700 years, near Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. The sword, broken in two, might have been used by Vandal warriors ...
Is the Grand Egyptian Museum worth visiting? What you can see – and what’s missing – before it fully opens
After a wait of more than two decades, the Grand Egyptian Museum has welcomed visitors into 12 of its galleries – Tamara Davison travels to Cairo to find out if the treasures within are enough to enti ...
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The forgotten history of Black people before slavery
Can you name 10 kings or queens from history in 60 seconds? No Googling! Go!How did you do? High five if you got all 10! But ...
Tomb of Egyptian pharaoh is first found in Luxor since Tutankhamun – here’s how we know who lay inside
Discovered in 2022, the site is some 1.2 miles away from the Valley of the Kings, where tombs for Thutmose I and III and ...
First Egyptian pharaoh's tomb discovered since King Tut’s
The discovery near Luxor is the first of a pharaonic royal tomb since the treasures of Tutankhamun’s tomb were found over a ...
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Scientifically sniffing ancient Egyptian mummified bodies
Have you ever wondered what a mummy smells like? According to research reported in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, it’s “woody,” “spicy,” and even “sweet.” Researchers analyzed the ...
First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun's
Egyptologists have discovered the first tomb of a pharaoh since Tutankhamun's was uncovered over a century ago. King Thutmose ...
New royal tomb of ‘brutal’ Egyptian pharaoh discovered after 3,500 years
The hidden tomb of a ‘brutal’ Egyptian pharaoh has been discovered 3,500 years since his death. Archaeologists revealed the ...
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Adventures in the genetic time machine
Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?
Linguist Peggy Mohan examines early Indus Valley languages and their lack of ‘literature’
Much of the early search for a lost Indus Valley language centred on the seals that were found when the old cities were ...
Video shows 30-million-year-old skull of apex predator that could solve extinction riddle
Scientists in Egypt discovered a not-before-known apex predator that lived 30 million years ago, potentially helping to solve ...