Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, they created a culture that influenced both civilizations.

Archaeologists have uncovered ancient tombs with artifacts in Israel's Negev Desert revealing trade connections with distant ...

Located near Tlalim Junction, the excavation site has revealed dozens of tombs containing a rich variety of artifacts.

Excavations of a 2500-year-old tomb compound in the Negev desert in southern Israel revealed ancient trade caravans traveling ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 2,500-year-old burial site in the Negev Highlands, shedding light on ancient trade routes that connected cultures from Yemen, Phoenicia, Egypt, and beyond, the Israel ...

Colin Renfrew played a key part in transforming archaeology into a problem-oriented, theoretically explicit and ...

Alexandria, in Egypt, became one of the largest cities in the Mediterranean ... These seven cities were dominant in politics, trade, and culture in ancient Greece. The populations were quite large for ...

Ahmad Hasaballah / Getty Images Ancient Egypt was primarily ruled by men, with only a handful of women successfully coming to power. One of them was Hatshepsut, the sixth pharaoh of the 18th ...

The purpose of these so-called 'sun stones', and the reasons for throwing them into ditches en masse, have been something of a mystery – but ancient ice excavated from Greenland may have the answer.

India's trade deficit narrowed to $21.94 bn in December from November's revised $32.84 billion, as exports grew while overseas shipments went down on sequenial basis. Merchandise exports in December ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...