The first people ever to speak to each other were Adam and Eve, around 6,000 BC. They were spending their third Christmas together — always a good excuse for conversation, dancing, and merriment. It ...

Step inside one of the most mysterious tombs in ancient Egypt — the original burial site of Pharaoh Akhenaten, the ...

Some historians suggest the biblical Moses and the revolutionary Pharaoh Akhenaten may have been the same man. Could this bold theory rewrite history? He was singing to an empty restaurant. Then ...

The plague theory emerged primarily from ancient texts rather than physical evidence. Hittite plague prayers from the late 14th century BC describe a devastating epidemic that allegedly originated ...

People were always aware that things like physical features and biological quirks tended to run in families, but no one ever really knew why. The 1940s marked a turning point when scientists finally ...

CAIRO - Egypt's most famous pharaoh, King Tutankhamun, was a frail boy who suffered from a cleft palate and club foot. He died of complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, and his ...

Leonard Woolley’s excavation of Ur yielded an archaeologist’s dream: a series of intact burials from one of the world's most important ancient cities. Dating from 2600-2300 B.C., a decorative bull's ...

The New Kingdom of ancient Egypt was a golden age of architecture and art. A variety of factors combined to make the New Kingdom one of the most creative cultures of the ancient world. The empire that ...

Amid a revolution and subsequent coup, the country’s youth find inspiration in one of Africa’s great civilizations: the little-known kingdom of Kush. Ahmed Ibrahim Alkhair (at far left), wrapped in ...