While it is common to see cats in modern households, cats are among the most recently domesticated animals. Archaeological ...

Archaeologists excavating at Saqqara Necropolis found a 4,300-year-old tomb of a poorly known prince with a unique fake door, ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

A modern vision has met traditional resistance as the pilot operation of the long-awaited Giza Plateau Facilities Development ...

The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals ... developed on ... Ancient Egyptian Mummified Bodies ...

Dramatic new discoveries in the ancient Egytptian burial ... powered by all these animal mummies.” To the Greeks, part of the appeal of such Egyptian customs may have been the ease of making ...

A tiny fossil preserved in 16 million-year-old amber revealed an extinct Caribbean species that mastered the art of ...

The Eye of Horus is frequently found in ancient Egyptian burials, particularly on wedjat amulets.

Throughout history, animals have played vital roles ... that lived with and influenced the ancient world. Cats were worshipped in ancient Egypt, often linked to the goddess Bastet.

The discovery was made near the remains of a mummified adult lion, which was found underneath the Saqqara necropolis in 2004.

The butchered remains of great bustards found in the graves of people buried 15,000 years ago show that these birds had a ...