“About half a million Jews visited the Western Wall over the week of Passover in 2025 but only 6,315 of them went further up to the Temple Mount,” said Kikar HaShabbat, an ultra-Orthodox news site, ...

Beneath the visible grandeur of Karnak Temple lies a deeper, more mysterious history—one layered in stone, time, and recycled ...

After thousands of years in the afterlife you might expect to stink like a moldy old scrotum, but as it turns out, ancient Egyptian mummies are still surprisingly easy on the nose.

Groundbreaking research undertaken by Uppsala University and published in the journal Antiquity (via Ancient Origins) has rewritten previously held beliefs about the remote society of Rapa Nui, also ...

Warfare was a way of life for many Ancient Egyptian pharaohs. A new Sky HISTORY series sees why several of their battles are considered the stuff of legend.

Archaeologists have discovered multiple artifacts depicting ancient Greek deities in the ancient city of Finziade in Sicily.

Introduction History is not simply the story of what happened mdash;it is the memory of how power was used, values encoded, ...

Egyptian tombs yield all manner of surprises. One of the most macabre, recalls archaeologist Dr Mary Hartley, emerged during ...

Yi Wong re-examines the destruction of Hatshepsut's statues, suggesting ritualistic deactivation rather than revenge by ...

The Egyptian queen Hatshepsut is a beloved figure in global history because she was a powerful female pharaoh, which was ...

After the French parliament voted on Monday to return to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the ...