Zooarchaeologist Stella Nikolova examined dog remains from across Bulgaria’s Iron Age (roughly 5th–1st centuries BC). At Pistiros, she reported that nearly 20% of the examined dog bones had cut marks ...

The two basic characteristics of the Nephilim, namely that they were children of the so-called Sons of God and that they were fallen ones, are attested to in other versions of the same anciet ...

A new, non-peer-reviewed report argues that Egypt’s Great Pyramid may be far older than the familiar Old Kingdom timeline, proposing an age in the order of tens of thousands of years. The claim hinges ...

Most reliquary crosses are found broken, opened, or separated, which strips away key information about how they were made and used. This one is different: it’s a two-part cross permanently sealed with ...

Three hundred years after Christ, in the middle of a grappling Roman Empire, a small group of men and women left their cities in search of the quiet desolation of the Egyptian desert to become the ...

The newly uncovered basin lies west of the Temple of Maat (dedicated to Maat, the goddess associated with truth, justice, and cosmic order) and covers more than 50 square meters, according to the ...

Southwest Sinai held prized resources, especially copper and turquoise, that drew Egyptian expeditions from very early periods. In this interpretation, the violence isn’t random: it is propaganda, ...

Two unassuming pieces of wood recovered from a prehistoric lakeshore in southern Greece have become a headline-grabbing rarity - the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dated to around 430,000 years ...

The comet the world knows as Halley’s Comet may owe its “first to spot the pattern” credit to someone far earlier than Edmond Halley: an 11th-century English monk. New interdisciplinary research ...

The key takeaway is that the paintings do not simply show people moving; they encode recognizable ritual elements - like clapping women, dancers in circles, and altered postures associated with trance ...

One of the most memorable details described by INAH and repeated by later reporting, the owl’s beak curves over a painted stucco face thought to represent a Zapotec lord, possibly an ancestor figure ...

The newly described specimen is a partial left mandible plus a molar crown, dated to about 2.6 million years ago using multiple methods, making it one of the oldest Paranthropus fossils known. The ...