Discovered in the ruins of Tikal, the altar sheds light on strained relations between the Maya city and Teotihuacán—which was ...

The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The ...

Since the birth of humanity people have fought each other. Over time the ancient weapons have been replaced by more ...

While sifting through the ruins of an ancient building in Oman, archaeologists unearthed a pair of green-blue discs. The finds turned out to be a 4,000-year-old musical instrument — offering a “rare ...

Archaeologists have analyzed a pair of copper cymbals from Bronze Age Oman, suggesting a shared musical tradition connected ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's ...

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city of Abydos dating to about 3,600 years ago during a chaotic period in ...

Yet what we do know is that ancient Egyptians were quite attuned to both ... monument without touching it," he added. "We have the instruments to analyze monuments from the air, from satellite ...

"It is always difficult to establish if the eclipses were seen in the ancient past as bad omens or good omens." ...

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city of Abydos dating to about 3,600 years ago during a chaotic period in Egypt's ...