Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed 5,000-year-old wine jars, many sealed, in Queen Meret-Neith's tomb at Abydos. This find ...

The ancient Egyptian pyramids may be thousands of years old, but to this day, we're still finding out new information about ...

In the 1750s, an Italian farmer digging a well stumbled upon a lavish villa in the ruins of Herculaneum. Inside was a ...

The starch granules prove how the tools were used in ancient times. "The starch granule evidence was needed to even be able to say that these milling surfaces were used for these plants," Wilks said.

Located at Tel Shiqmona in coastal Israel, the facility turned sea snails into purple dye at an industrial scale ...

If you are sneezing this spring, you are not alone. Every year, plants release billions of pollen grains into the air, specks ...

Collectively valued at $500,000, the Mesopotamian relics are believed to have been looted and at least one was linked to the ...

I wish I could point to a period where the use of poison arrows was noted, but this is something that dates back to truly ancient times. The concept is quite simple: using animal or plant-based ...

The statement, translated from German to English, noted the town was one of the region's "most important Roman military sites" in ancient times. A cavalry unit there boasted around 700 horses at ...

“Most names come from seal impressions,” Sober told The Times of Israel, referring to the small circles of clay stamped on strings tying important documents in ancient times. “This means ...

Many ancient and modern pagan traditions ... The challenges of our time — environmental degradation, social fragmentation, rising authoritarianism — require not just a return to any one ...