When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...

Two decades after construction began, the Grand Egyptian Museum, which houses more than 100,000 ancient treasures, will host ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

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For nomadic Bedouin communities in Jordan and Egypt ... ancient trails draws on skills passed down between generations, from navigation to desert survival, says Olivia Mason, a lecturer in ...

He claims the Pyramid of Giza is where the Tree of Life once stood, whose fruits offered eternal life.

Zealandia, Earth's hidden 8th continent, lay submerged for centuries. Now fully mapped, it reveals secrets of tectonic drift, ...

A provocative new theory suggests that the original Garden of Eden may not have been in Mesopotamia, roughly modern-day Iraq, ...

Other scholars have offered alternate ideas. Author Pete Van Dyke suggests Eden exists in a spiritual “cosmic east,” beyond our physical world. Joel Kramer points to Saudi Arabia’s gold-rich land as ...

Boffins have given a bold new theory about where the Garden of Eden was located, and used ancient maps to claim that the tree of life is located within the Great Pyramid ...

A fossilized jawbone found off the coast of Taiwan more than 20 years ago belonged to a group of ancient humans, called the Denisovans, first identified in a Siberian cave. “I’m very excited ...