Pharaoh Shoshenq III had been buried in this tomb even though he had already built a larger one elsewhere in city of Tanis.

New evidence suggests that alcohol was a surprisingly big motivator in our monumental transition from hunting and gathering ...

Perhaps also surprising, the remains of cats and artistic depictions of them have been observed in various archaeological ...

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out ...

The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

But for every off-putting ancient hygiene practice, there are countless others that don’t sound so bad. Ancient Egyptians ...

The Temple of Bastet reveals the precision and ingenuity of ancient Egyptian engineers, from its structural design to its ...

UNESCO Regional Director Dr. Nuria Sanz described the exhibition as a meaningful contribution to heritage protection and ...

Your cat is not just acting royal, it actually is. New DNA proof shows today’s cats are direct descendants of Pharaonic Egypt’s sacred felines.

In this new study, a team analyzed the genomes of 70 ancient cats, dating back over the last 11,000 years (from about 9000 BCE to 19th century CE). The genomes were taken from bones found in ...

Now, a new DNA analysis of a sprawling set of ancient feline remains reveal that the precursors to modern housecats ...

The team analyzed DNA from 225 ancient cat specimens collected across Europe, North Africa, and Anatolia. These were were bones and teeth spanning more than 10,000 years of human history. From these ...