According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to see who would be ruler of Egypt. During the fight, Seth mut ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

Located at Tel Shiqmona in coastal Israel, the facility turned sea snails into purple dye at an industrial scale ...

Researchers have precisely dated key fossil sites in Central Anatolia, Türkiye, to 7-10 million years ago using a new ...

What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In fact, ...

While on a hike with her family along a trail in Israel, a 3-year-old girl picked up a small stone. It turned out to be a ...

The symbol was popular in Ancient Egyptian culture and was found at a site known for its archaeological significance.

That would place it further back in history than most other ancient structures by several thousand years, including the Egyptian pyramids and Stonehenge. Currently, scientists believe that the ...

Ziv Nitzvan, 3, discovered the amulet in the area around Beit Shemesh, a city that’s located less than an hour west of Jerusalem. It depicts a scarab, a beetle that commonly figures on ancient ...

Dr Savino di Lernia, the study’s senior author, adds, “the study highlights the importance of ancient DNA for reconstructing human history in regions like Central Northern Africa, providing ...

The alluring pebble turned out to be a 3,800-year-old Egyptian amulet, engraved with the design of an insect known as a scarab and dating from the Bronze ... given its rich history. Last year, while ...