FILE - Leader of Mali's ruling junta Gen. Assimi Goïta, centre, attends an independence day military parade in Bamako, Mali, ...

Marie Benedict's new novel reimagines the lives of a woman who was key in the discovery of King Tut's tomb and a female ...

In these books, an emperor, an officer and an orphan look for anything that resembles a clear victory in the fog of war.

Since the birth of humanity people have fought each other. Over time the ancient weapons have been replaced by more ...

A papyrus that contains part of Homer's "Iliad" has been discovered inside the abdomen of a mummy in Egypt. Other mummies at ...

When archaeologists began excavating a curved, red-brick ruin in the northern Sinai Desert, they assumed they were uncovering ...

I’ve never quite understood why tourists can’t help but write things like, “Gayoung was here.” But archaeological records suggest that even tourists 2,000 years ago couldn’t help but resist the urge ...

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How would a New York Times obituary writer measure up to the scribes of the Book of the Dead? He found out at the Brooklyn Museum. A detail of the gilded Book of the Dead of Ankhmerwer, a funerary ...

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Archaeologists recently unearthed the remains of ancient Roman marching camps in Saxony-Anhalt — a first for one of Eastern Germany’s larger states. The discovery was announced by the State Office for ...