Ancient History

"Feasting, almost invariably associated with sacrifice, was a social necessity of early societies," researcher Finbar McCormick said.

The head cones were found in two separate graves at the archaeological site of Amarna

Little is known about the Aksumite Empire, which ruled over what is now Eritrea and northern Ethiopia hundreds of years ago.

New discoveries are challenging the traditional view held by many archaeologists that all Viking warriors were men.

The bust is one of the finest and most important surviving pieces of Ancient Egyptian artwork.

The findings were made at Saqqara—a site that once served as the necropolis for the Ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis.

The settlement lies at an altitude around 5,000 feet higher than the famous Inca site of Machu Picchu.

Archaeologists uncovered the ancient city using a revolutionary imaging technology known as LiDAR, which essentially lets you "see through" vegetation.

The Minoan Civilization, which flourished on the Greek island of Crete in ancient times, is considered by many to be the birthplace of "high culture" in Europe.

The letter is the oldest known Christian documentary evidence from the Roman province of Egypt, providing fascinating details about some of the earliest adherents to the religion.

Researchers say their findings at the 'Ein Qashish site show open-air sites may have been more important to Neanderthals than previously thought.

At least 170 of the 4,500 manuscripts in Egypt's Sacred Monastery of the God-Trodden Mount Sinai have text invisible to the naked eye.

The stone has a weird and varied origin story.

The finding could date back to a vanquished Iron Age kingdom that once went toe-to-toe with the Assyrians for dominance over the Middle East.

Researchers pieced together data from thousands of ancient tablets to make a road map to 11 lost cities.

A ball court excavated at the site of Paso de la Amada, in Chiapas, Mexico, may be the oldest known ballgame court, dating to about 1500 B.C.

Did the Germans create Egypt's new "Frankenstein"?

Zeno, Epictetus, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius, the great Stoic philosophers of the classical world, are back in vogue

The head of UNESCO has lambasted the desecration of historic and religious sites by ISIS, comparing them to the Nazis

The find refutes earlier ideas about humanity's ability to adapt to altitude.