The Nile nourishes a green band stretching through the desert, from the heart of Africa to the Mediterranean Sea. Along its ...

A man stores wood on the outskirts of the south Darfur refugee camp of Kalma, in Sudan on April 12, 2007.

According to legendary sources, Temenus is one of the most significant founding figures in the history of early Greece.

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...

Mansa Musa was already powerful, but his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 turned him into a global legend. He traveled with an enormous caravan loaded with gold and luxury, handing out gifts so massive ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Imagination Station is transporting visitors 3,300 years into the past with its newest exhibition, TUTANKHAMUN: “Wonderful Things” Treasures from the Pharaoh’s Tomb, which is scheduled ...

Chemical traces of opium found in an ancient Egyptian alabaster vase shows it had a widespread use. Scientists even think King Tut himself may have used the substance. The findings mean opium use ...

Simon Lamb has received grants from the UK Natural Environment Research Council which has supported this work. His book 'The Oldest Rocks on Earth' is published by Columbia University Press, and he ...

About 9,500 years ago, a community of hunter-gatherers in central Africa cremated a small woman on an open pyre at the base of Mount Hora, a prominent natural landmark in what is now northern Malawi, ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 million years ago was Homo erectus. But in recent years, a debate has ...

This redefines “high” society in ancient Egypt. Yale University researchers have found trace amounts of opium jars in an ancient Egyptian vessel, proving that opium use was widespread in the land of ...

Just when you may have thought that archaeologists have discovered all there is to find in Egypt, they uncover something new. This time, the remains of a sun temple, which is believed to have belonged ...