Perhaps the most common Egyptian demons were the ghosts of one’s immediate family members. Often the spirits of the recently deceased were invoked in ritual texts that asked for their blessings ...

Newsweek reports that a Neolithic ceremonial site estimated to be between 5,000 and 5,500 years old has been discovered in ...

According to a CNN report, the site of the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah has been discovered in Iraq using historical accounts and ...

Excavations in Tajikistan have unveiled a city of merchant princes that flourished from the fifth to the eighth century A.D. An 8th-century A.D. mural unearthed at the city of Panjakent in modern ...

MAGELANG, INDONESIA—Artnet News reports that Satoshi Tanaka of Ritsumeikan University, Jiao Pan of the University of Science and Technology Beijing, and their colleagues developed a neural ...

How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses The sun illuminated the stadium in Ephesus, a wealthy harbor city in western Anatolia, on a day of eagerly anticipated gladiatorial ...

DURHAM, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by Durham University, 15,800-year-old engravings depicting fish caught in traps or nets have been identified among the more than 400 engraved ...

Some 40 years ago, a Buddhist monk uncovered a mandible in Baishiya Karst Cave, more than 10,000 feet above sea level on the Tibetan Plateau. The specimen has now been dated to 160,000 years ago ...

A painting of a woman on lime wood is one of the mummy portraits being studied by researchers using special camera filters under different light wavelengths (left to right: visible, ultraviolet ...

One of the two volcanoes that formed Ometepe Island looms over Nicaragua’s Lake Cocibolca—also known as Lake Nicaragua. The island was at the center of a cultural region known to scholars as ...

Plum Bayou Mounds, Arkansas(Will Newton/Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism) A dozen miles southeast of Little Rock, two large mounds rise from the flat Arkansas River floodplain.