The text—the tale of a warrior ruler—may help settle a nearly century-old puzzle about the location of the Temple of ...

Ancient mudbrick buildings decay rapidly, hindering our understanding of past cultures. New research on 5th-3rd millennia BCE ...

A newly discovered residential city and Coptic cemetery in southern Egypt highlight daily life, burial practices, and cultural continuity.

An international research team has extracted genome-wide ancient DNA from two 7,000-year-old mummified women buried in a ...

Exactly how many master­pieces are held in community-based collections like the Abbey’s is anyone’s guess – as are the safeguards around them – and veteran curator Mr Strong says that’s not good ...

Petroglyphs on sandstone at a national park in Chad bear witness to wildlife that once roamed the area before the continent’s ...

A new UN report says migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in Libya are being forcibly rounded up and abused.

Migrants in Libya, including young girls, are at risk of being killed, tortured, raped or put into domestic slavery, ...

Two naturally mummified individuals buried roughly 7,000 years ago in a Libyan rock shelter have yielded ancient genomes that ...

The sites join the existing heritage sites on the list, such as the Heart of Sharjah and Sharjah Fort (Al Hosn), which were the first sites in the country to be inscribed in 2022. Al Sadu and falconry ...

Archaeologists confirm four walled oases in Saudi Arabia that reveal an urban and power network in the ancient desert.