The Bolton Museum recently unveiled what experts call the world's best-preserved ancient Egyptian sun hat. It's believed to have been worn by a Roman soldier.

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The wicks, preserved in unusual circumstances, are a remarkable discovery given the moist Mediterranean climate, which ...

Are hieroglyphs really as indecipherable as they look? Here is a primer on how to start interpreting these ancient motifs.

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A centurion wearing sneakers and shades? AI image generators sometimes take serious liberties with history. Researchers in ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

The mysterious Sibylline Books were secretly kept Greek oracle collections that the rulers of ancient Rome consulted in times ...

The remains of at least seven infants were found at Uşaklı Höyük, Turkey, alongside a well preserved newborn baby ...

The discovery sheds new light on the Plague of Justinian, which may have killed 50 million people during the sixth century.

Constantin “The Castor” Lapusneanu, a well-known Romanian tattoo artist and the man behind the Getodava historical ...

The claim came from ancient Greek historian Herodotus, who was not always a reliable source and who never actually traveled to Persia.