Researchers surveyed the DNA of more than 200 cats spanning the last 9,000 years, including ancient Romanian cat remains, Egyptian cat mummies, and modern African wildcat specimens.

History Drama on the Nile: This ancient Egyptian family power struggle makes “Succession” look tame in comparison Having a lot of children can cause headaches when settling issues of inheritance.

However, the ancient Egyptian mummy, housed at the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy, has now shown that the plague was also prevalent in North Africa at the start of the Bronze Age, reports the Mirror US.

A scientist has uncovered a secret river that might have helped Egyptians build the pyramids. An ancient branch of the River Nile might have been used to transport material to build the mammoth ...

Trending News: Unearthed in Egypt's Tarkhan Cemetery, the Tarkhan Dress, dating back to 3482-3102 BC, stands as the oldest known tailored garment. Discovered by Sir ...

Paper, invented in China around the 2nd century BCE, did not spread to the rest of the world until much later, as it remained within the country for half a millennium, and it wasn’t until the 11th ...

The Chankillo Archeoastronomical Complex is an ancient solar observatory in Peru that was built thousands of years before the Inca civilization ruled the area. Very little is known about the ...

How ancient builders raised the mighty pyramids still captures the curiosity of historians and scientists. Despite decades of digging, high-tech scanning, and countless theories, the puzzle ...

A group of scientists who claim they found a 'vast underground city' lying beneath Ancient Egyptian pyramids have come up with another 'new discovery' they reckon they've found. Last time around ...