“Our findings combined with prior research indicate that opium use was more than accidental or sporadic in ancient Egyptian ...

An ancient alabaster vase from Yale’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opium, offering the strongest evidence yet ...

Archaeologists uncover 59 sealed mummy coffins at Saqqara, Egypt, many believed to hold the remains of ancient priests. This remarkable discovery sheds new light on Egypt’s buried past and its sacred ...

In fact it may be much older. The molestus mosquito is a variant of Culex pipiens which progressed from feeding on birds to ...

For generations, the ancient Egyptian city of Akhetaten—built by the controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten—was shrouded in the ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered an Egyptian vessel reused in a street-food kitchen revealing evidence of trade and ...

“Our findings, combined with prior research, indicate that opium use was more than accidental or sporadic in ancient Egyptian ...

In her curation of “The World Between,” Dakouri-Hild calls attention to the complexities of cultural formation in geographic ...

This suggests similar alabaster vessels from the time period—often made from soft calcite stone and used for perfumes and ...

Researchers believe that these findings will bring a new change in the understanding of ancient medical and medicinal ...

Ancient Persians believed the sky was blue because it reflected a massive sapphire beneath the Earth, giving the stone cosmic symbolism. Kings, priests, and rulers wore sapphires to signal wisdom, ...

New evidence says the Karnak Temple's first footprint rose on natural high ground that sat among ancient channels carved by ...