New Curtin-led research has revealed that water played a far bigger role than previously thought in shaping Earth's first continents, transforming the planet's early crust and helping to build the ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are restoring the legend of a forgotten superpower.

As I.R.S. employees toil through tax season, their agency is being dismantled by the government it powers.

Since Khartoum’s recapture from paramilitary groups, curators have learned that the damage left behind is worse than anyone thought ...

Wealth inequality began shaping human societies more than 10,000 years ago, long before the rise of ancient empires or the invention of writing. That's according to a new study that challenges ...

Every fossil find and genetic study tweaks what we think we know about the timeline or the circumstances under which ...

They found some Khamun ground. Archaeologists have discovered a 3,400-year-old town that was possibly erected by King ...

When we think of modern innovations, we often picture digital devices, advanced medicine, or sleek engineering. But what if many of the ideas we call “modern” were already in use thousands of years ...

There’s no better opportunity to head outdoors than Passover. After all, one of the defining qualities of our slavery in Egypt was our inability to take time for ourselves.

Inside Sudan’s biggest museum, the exhibition halls once filled with statues and relics from centuries of ancient ...

Gold is prized for its beauty and rarity but it is also indestructible, the same piece changing forms through history and ...

The discovery of fortification elements and its strategic placement hint that Kom el-Nugus could have served as a military or ...