"People would make devotional offerings in the form of animals as mummies. This would have more potency as a blood sacrifice, ...

Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied ...

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

Therefore, villagers performed lion dances with bright red lion head costumes to scare Nian away, which is still a popular Chinese New Year’s tradition to this day. But what goes into making one ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has abruptly fired the director of the National Security Agency, according to U.S. officials and members of Congress, but the White House and the ...

Their excavations unearthed several 2,500-year-old tombs with hundreds of treasures. A joint team of Egyptian and French archaeologists returned to the Ramesseum for their 34th year of work at the ...

In the late 1800s, it wasn't unusual to see well-to-do Europeans climbing Egyptian pyramids in long ... The next year, they found over a dozen lion-headed statues and countless fragments of ...

God of War (2005) deserves a remake to align ... maybe moving closer to an Egyptian pantheon or trying to delve deeper into the distinctions between the Greeks and Romans. And a remake of the ...

They are who we thought they were. Coincidentally, that Final Four of 17 years ago was also played in San Antonio, Texas, as it will be this season. The Gators opened the Elite Eight round by ...

The limestone tomb chamber, dating to about 3,600 years ago, of an unknown ancient Egyptian king, discovered during excavations by Penn Museum and Egyptian archeologists, is seen in Abydos ...

Today held in the Egyptian ... with a lion's body. It measures 240 feet (73m) from paw to tail, rises 65 feet (20m) high and is about 62 feet (19m) wide across the haunches. The lower part of the ...