Cooking is an essential part of human culture, but people haven't always written down recipes the way we do now.

Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

From Cairo to Texas, and everywhere in between, the former Dallas Mavericks head physician and JetWind CEO reflects on how ...

Indeed, the earliest mammal we are currently aware of is the Brasilodon quadrangularis – a diminutive critter described as ...

Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The ...

From demon to danger noodle, human ideas about snakes can be as contradictory as the creatures themselves. In Slither, Stephen S. Hall challenges our serpent stereotypes.

Many ancient sites are concealed due to volcanic eruptions, and the nation's high population density makes excavation particularly difficult. "Very little is known about the identities and ...

Their excavations unearthed several 2,500-year-old tombs with hundreds of treasures. A joint team of Egyptian and French archaeologists returned to the Ramesseum for their 34th year of work at the ...