These artifacts, along with architectural features, provide valuable insights into the temple’s long history of use and ...

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Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the afterlife and helped solve a baffling mystery.

Spread on the banks of the Syr Darya River, bordering the Kyzylkum desert in the southeast and Aryskum sands in the north, ...

Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped ...

In the half-dark of a third-floor office, Danielle Levy lifted a clay tablet out of its box. Carefully examining it with ...

Increased land management by Aboriginal people in southeastern Australia around 6,000 years ago cut forest shrub cover in ...

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“The classic checkerboard pattern of white squares interspersed with black or gray squares is ancient and traverses multiple ...

A pit of human bones, potential evidence of a catastrophic epidemic that struck Constantinople in 541 A.D. Sulfur deposits ...