New sites and artifacts are found all the time, revealing forgotten secrets of the past. Learn more about some recent discoveries: In Egypt, a massive stone block weighing about 40,000 pounds was ...

An ancient chieftain gathered the community and gave them instructions: bury dozens and dozens of weapons as a sacrificial ...

Nov. 19, 2024 — Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of researchers has revealed new insights into how ancient ...

The Ramses mission will rendezvous with Apophis in February 2029, two months before its closest approach to Earth on Friday, ...

Oops! Jon M. Chu's about to do it again. In the feverish midst of promoting his upcoming film Wicked, the supreme tentpole affair of the fall movie season, Chu ...

The sistrum was one of the most sacred musical instruments in ancient Egypt and was believed to hold powerful magical properties. It was used in the worship of the goddess Hathor, mythological ...

Ancient Dragon’s Lightning Spear is a dragon cult incantation and a red lightning attack in the Elden Ring. This weapon of choice for Placidusax and Fortissax is one of the best Faith-based ...

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The energy released would equal that of tens or hundreds of nuclear weapons, depending on the ... inadvertently reenact a core component of ancient Egyptian cosmology. To the ancient Egyptians ...

Archaeologists have long known that the Maya Lowlands, in the southernmost region of Mexico, harbors ancient urban settings (SN: 10/25/21). When archaeologist Luke Auld-Thomas, of Tulane ...

Sheep with deformed horns are among the more mysterious animal remains discovered at an ancient Egyptian burial site dating back to around 3700 BC. They also represent the oldest physical evidence ...

While excavating an ancient Egyptian necropolis near Luxor, archaeologists discovered a 3,800-year-old tomb containing multiple individuals who might represent different generations of the same ...