The tiny cuts and grooves that decorate some ancient human artifacts are not just pretty accidents, according to some ...

Scent was an important consideration in the mummification process that used oils, waxes and balms to preserve the body and ...

The team’s approach could inspire museums to entertain visitors with odorous features such as smellscapes. In fact, the ...

We know what they look like, and even sound like, but there’s one question you might not have pondered: what do ancient ...

Museum officials said the bread is “believed to be up to 3,000 years old.” It’s unclear who collected the sample, when they ...

A large international team of researchers has discovered that the mosquitoes that live in London's underground subway evolved ...

Excavation of a 2,500-year-old burial site revealed tombs of trade caravans from Yemen, Phoenicia and Egypt that traveled through the Land of Israel.

Students study Hebrew and either Greek or Latin throughout the programme, plus up to three additional languages chosen from a wide selection including Akkadian, Aramaic, Egyptian, Sumerian, Syriac and ...

Within a month they pronounced Ivar Kreuger a crook. But until last week when Price, Waterhouse issued the final report on their world-wide investigation, no one knew precisely how good a crook or ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The future of the defunct Crook Point Bascule Bridge is, much like itself, still up in the air. The 117-year-old railroad bridge was abandoned in 1976 due to declining ...