This photo provided by researchers shows rock-cut tombs in Nuwayrat, Egypt where a pottery vessel in which the remains of a ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

The first whole ancient Egyptian genome has been sequenced by researchers, taken from a man who lived 4,500 to 4,800 years ...

An archaeological dig in eastern France revealed the remnants of a five-foot-high equestrian statue that likely overlooked a ...

Early Humans Had Unique 'Superpower' That Helped Them Survive Before Migrating Out of Africa Experts have long believed that ...

The researchers shared their surprising findings in a new study that highlights the importance of using science to examine art and antiquity.

It is just one of the modern attractions in the town of Nishan in Qufu, Shandong province, where Confucius was born in 551 BC.

The cover of the Chinese translation for Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop. [Photo provided to China Daily] Two scholars outline evolution of the arts from cave paintings to pop ...

The institute, created with the aim of studying the progression of human history from the earliest civilizations in North Africa and West Asia, traces its origins back to the Haskell Oriental Museum, ...

For the show, 13 objects from the University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient Culture and one from the Thanos N. Zintilis Collection of Cypriot Antiquities have been brought ...