Ashraf Omar Eldarir, 52, admitted to smuggling nearly 600 Egyptian artifacts into the United States, many of them so freshly ...

The artifacts, which included amulets and a sculpture, smelled like earth when they spilled out of his suitcases, according ...

A tiny Ancient Egyptian artefact has been discovered in a UK city it is believed to be around 3,000 years old and originally ...

By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be wild boars that were hunted. At the dawn of the Iron Age, some 500 years ...

By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens ...

Focusing on the life of Italian scholar Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, this is a superbly written effort to capture the power ...

Numerous previous studies have analyzed the composition of pastes and mortars used in ancient Egyptian construction. Some of ...

Dan Brown' s next global, multi-tiered thriller finds protagonist Robert Langdon journeying from Prague to New York to London as he evades a would-be assassin and ponders the depths of human ...

BC, an unknown – but clearly disgruntled – schemer from the Greek city of Antioch had a curse tablet made. Inscribed on a ...

Judging by the album cover, it’s set bang in the middle of Ancient Egypt’s first Golden Age ... famed alchemist and advisor to Elizabeth I. His occult knowledge inspired such fear that a mob torched ...

But the citrus genus has a surprising history, popping up everywhere from ancient Rome and the Renaissance to naval exploration and Casanova's famed romantic trysts. The history of citrus dates ...