The COVID pandemic and its aftermath have killed more than 1,220,000 people in the U.S. alone, and this has made everybody more aware of death’s omnipresence.

While trying to enjoy a lazy day on the river on their canoe, two men couldn't keep their balance and tipped their canoe over ...

Around 5,000 years ago, members of an ancient Peruvian Indigenous group buried an elite member of their society: They wrapped ...

By Professor Zhu An epidemiological study conducted in Quzhou, China, has revealed significant findings about the relationship between alcohol consumption and colorectal cancer risk, with a particular ...

King Djoser of Egypt ordered his chief architect, Imhotep, to design a tomb like no other - The Step Pyramid of Djoser.

A study led by the UAB has revealed a practice that history has overlooked for millennia. An interdisciplinary study led by ...

Most foreign visitors to Egypt stick to the Nile Valley or the Red Sea coast, but that's to miss the bulk of this huge ...

Archaeologists in coastal Peru have discovered the 5,000-year-old remains of a woman who may have belonged to the upper ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we're dead ...

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

One offers a cryptic phrase 'Appease the ka-force of Amun' in reference to the ancient Egyptian god of the air. He said: "This phrase is there to remind us that men must constantly make offerings ...