The ancient Egyptians celebrated the new year in a variety of ways, including having feasts, giving gifts, and exposing statues of gods to sunlight so they could be "regenerated." When you ...

Karl Mischke … in discussing the origin of the Arabic numerals, points out that the Roman numerals from 1 to 10 originated from the primitive custom of reckoning on the fingers of the two hands ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. People tale part in the winter Solstice celebrations at Stonehenge, England, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP ...

Frozen Antarctica Walloped by Climate Extremes. Credit: Horacio Lyon / Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0 An ancient hidden “world” has been uncovered deep beneath the thick ice of Antarctica. Named Lake Enigma, ...

Stonehenge may have been built to unify people in ancient Britain, according to new research. It comes after evidence shows one of the stones came to the monument in Wiltshire from as far away as ...

Texas Governor Issues Warning to Drivers 'Alien' head figurine made 7,000 years ago unearthed at ancient site Taking advantage of an obscure rule, Chargers' Dicker makes NFL's first fair-catch ...

Now, research building on the two previous studies suggests that Stonehenge may have been reconstructed in England around 2620 to 2480 BC to help unify ancient Britons as newcomers arrived from ...