Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, they created a culture that influenced both civilizations.

Researchers made the new discoveries during field work at the Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan. The research provides insights into regional heritage and fills gaps in knowledge about how ancient ...

Numerous previous studies have analyzed the composition of pastes and mortars used in ancient Egyptian construction. Some of ...

A Copper Age burial in Spain holds the largest collection of beads ever found ― enough to require a tonne of shellfish as raw material.

New research has uncovered the earliest traces of lead contamination caused by human activities, linking the development of ...

A biological anthropologist at the University of Coimbra in Portugal is hypothesizing that the mysterious flat patches found on the sides of teeth in ancient Europeans may have been due to the ...

The discovery might illuminate the link between the blue pigment's ancient Egyptian roots and its rediscovery by Renaissance ...