The chamber holds a stone coffin engraved with the physician’s name and titles, which include "director of medicinal plants" and "chief dentist" Sonja Anderson Piece by piece, experts carefully ...

Chicken bones found by Archaeologists, determined the exact date of the destruction of the ancient Greek city of Scythopolis located in Israel. Public Domain An international team of archaeologists ...

The Civilization of Ancient Egypt" at the Shanghai Museum, where many examples of ancient cat imagery are on display ...

When geographer Sven Hedin set out from the city of Khotan (today Hotan) in western China, he expected to find ruins from an ancient town—but much more lay hidden in the desert sands.

Credit: Philip Galle / Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons Alexandria, the world-renowned ancient Greek metropolis was founded by Alexander the Great approximately in the year 331 BC. After conquering ...

The ancient Egyptians celebrated the new year in ... An example, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, was created for a priest named Amenhotep. The flask contains ...

The discoveries came to light during excavations in the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, located in what is now northern Iraq. Among the most significant features of the archaeological site is the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...