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Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...
Civil servants felt frustrated after Prime Minister John Major returned the 13th-century artefact 30 years ago, newly ...
Researchers sequenced ancient Egyptian DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton, revealing genetic links between early Egypt and ...
The Nile River cruise between Luxor and Aswan is a slow and languid voyage past the ribbon of greenery that rescues Egypt ...
Underneath a temple in the ancient ruined city of Taposiris Magna, archaeologists discovered a vast tunnel, referred to by experts as a "geometric miracle". The structure was discovered 13 metres (43 ...
From the pyramids of Egypt to the jungle-choked ruins of Angkor Wat, from the magical desert capital of the Nabateans in ...
Deco – characterised by clean lines, bold geometric shapes and jazzy colours – was seen as thrustingly modern. And it had a ...
Hitan" in Arabic, holds more than 400 primitive whale skeletons that offer a snapshot of the evolution of these creatures ...
Perched at 10,000 ft in Arunachal Pradesh, this monumental complex houses over 450 monks. A gem of Mahayana Buddhism, it's India's largest monastery and among the world’s most significant.
Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...
New research in northwest Saudi Arabia has identified the existence of a network of previously unknown walled oases.
If you've ever wanted to visit Petra, here's all you need to know about planning a trip and its mythological history.