Beyond the handful of memorial libraries, many other ancient Roman public libraries were great cultural centers, including ...

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Ancient Egyptian tomb of King Thutmose II unearthed, revealing new insights into the history of the region and the king's ...

The great mystery of the Minoan Phaistos Disc has been "solved by 99 percent" says linguist and archaeologist Gareth Owens.

In the shadow of St Peter’s Basilica, across the piazza degli scalpellini, or “square of the stonecutters”, lies another, more ancient structure.

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Scientists studied the scents of ancient Egyptian mummies, revealing embalming materials and conservation effects.

In 1962, archaeologists uncovered an extraordinary artifact in a tomb near Thessaloniki, Greece—the Derveni Papyrus.

Acacia is a genus of 1,300 species of trees and shrubs that are native to tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Many of them are found in Africa and Australia. Humans hav ...

Mankind has sought civilization since the earliest days of recorded history. However, some kingdoms were the first to start ...

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?