Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

KERMA, SUDAN— Phys.org reports that a Kerma culture burial radiocarbon dated to between 1775 and 1609 B.C. has been discovered in Sudan’s Bayuda Desert, in what was once ancient Nubia, by a team of ...

Facial tattoos have been found on the mummified remains of children who lived in Nubia some 1,400 years ago, when ...

New DNA analysis of the remains of a Roman-era individual known as Beachy Head Woman indicates that she came from ...

ArtNet News reports that excavators working in the ancient Roman town of Oplontis, three miles west of Pompeii, have ...

Homo erectus is thought to have migrated out of Africa some 1.8 million years ago. Did other species migrate out of Africa as well at this time? The Dmanisi skulls differ from Homo erectus, do not all ...

A sculpture known as the Hell Mouth is one of several dozen fantastical creations dating to the sixteenth century that line the paths of a park called the Sacro Bosco, or Sacred Wood, near the central ...

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—A riveting lost Sumerian myth was recently rediscovered thanks to University of Chicago Sumerologist Jana Matuszak, Phys.org reports. She deciphered a forgotten cuneiform tablet that ...

AYVALIK, TURKEY—More than 100 Ice Age tools associated with early humans have been discovered along Turkey’s eastern coastline, suggesting that people may have once migrated from Anatolia to Europe ...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Oxford University analyzed sediments from third-century a.d. […] ...

By looking at mother-infant experiences together, we can observe the long-lasting impact urbanization has on the health of ...

CAIRO, EGYPT— Ahram Online reports that more than half of the sun temple of the pharaoh Niuserre, who ruled from about 2420 to 2389 B.C. during the 5th Dynasty, has been uncovered in the Abusir ...