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The city in the Dakhla oasis of what is now Egypt’s New Valley governate shows life when the country was part of the Byzantine empire. Photograph: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities In the Dakhla ...

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly ...

New evidence of “lost” ancient medieval manuscripts is being uncovered by researchers using computer simulations—but there's a problem.

Under the midday sun on the tapering shoreline of south India in Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, I rest my head against the mighty flank of Nandi, the sacred bull of the god Siva. There is a Nandi in every ...

Inventions That Have Been Lost to Time Throughout history, humanity has created countless inventions that have shaped the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Guatemalan farmers are turning to organic pesticides, rooted in traditional practices and sustainable ideas, to replace expensive synthetic ...

In 1925, while exploring the remote jungles of the Amazon on a quest to uncover a fabled lost city, British explorer Percy Fawcett and his small expedition party vanished without a trace. Fawcett, a ...

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose location had been a closely guarded ...

An international group of archaeologists utilizing satellite technology has uncovered 260 massive, 6,000 year old communal burial sites concealed throughout the scorching Atbai Desert of Eastern Sudan ...

In Norway’s highest mountains, experts are scouring perilous terrain for pieces of the past, long stored in mint condition in ice patches. As temperatures rise across the world, glacial archaeologists ...