Four small, clay tablets, unearthed in 2004, are finally gaining attention as possibly the first evidence of an alphabet, but ...

The institutions of their government, and the increasing threats – be they climatic, military, economic or political – gave ...

For over 3,000 years, ancient Egypt was one of the most powerful civilizations on Earth, with an empire stretching across ...

The intact burial—unearthed on this day in 1922—contained a "wonderful" cache of objects linked to the ancient Egyptian ...

Researchers found the trays reached a temperature high enough for baking and similar to temperatures reached using domed ...

Two decades after US military invasion left it spiraling out of control, a more stable Iraq is beginning to attract ...