On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

History is full of surprises, and some discoveries challenge everything we thought we knew about ancient civilizations. The ...

A new study has revealed what ancient Egyptian mummies smell like – and the results might surprise you. Researchers from UCL and the University of Ljubljana looked into details about ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans ...

(But she never said, "Let them eat cake") An exhibition featuring the first CT scans of the boy king's mummy tells us more about Tutankhamun than ever before Across the island, activists ...

As an archaeologist, you picture yourself traveling to some remote location, digging into the ground, and returning to a lab in a university or museum to study the remains of past civilizations ...

Parents need to know that The Mummy Returns is the 2001 sequel to the 1999 movie The Mummy. There is frequent battle violence -- fights with swords, bows and arrows, thrown knives, kicks and punches.

We will learn how archaeologists and codebreakers deciphered these inscriptions as well as the basics of the writing systems themselves, from Mesopotamian cuneiform to Egyptian hieroglyphics to ...

Jan. 28, 2025 — A team of stem cell scientists have successfully used embryonic stem cell engineering to create a bi-paternal mouse -- a mouse with two male parents -- that lived until adulthood ...