While preparing a papyrus for the museum’s upcoming “Made in Ancient Egypt” exhibit, conservators noticed a thick white ...

A 3,300-year-old Egyptian Book of the Dead papyrus reveals that ancient artists used a white mixture as the correction fluid.

Learn about the surprising discovery that shows that even ancient Egyptians used Wite-Out to fix their mistakes.

A stunning Spanish island often hailed as the 'best place for winter sun' is just a four-hour direct flight from the UK with ...

U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran have damaged at least four cultural and historical sites, including palaces and an ancient ...

Cocaine didn't make its way across the Atlantic until after the Spanish invaded. So how did cocaine end up being found on ...

Apparently, this approach for remembering grocery lists, house chores, deliveries, and the like was also a huge part of life for ancient Egyptians living over 2,000 years ago—something for which ...

Noisy, aggressive and invasive, these big birds may not actually be geese, but they sure act like it. What you should know ...

The distinctive smell of ancient mummies is helping scientists decode the secrets of Egyptian mummification. By analyzing tiny traces of chemicals in the air around mummy samples, researchers ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?

Researchers have estimated how much the home's owners may have paid to paint the small sacrarium, calculating the price of ...

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.