Eric Idle, a founding member of the iconic comedy group Monty Python’s Flying Circus, often contemplates whether extraterrestrial life possesses a sense of humour. "I think the answer must be yes, ...

Eric Idle sometime gazes up into the heavens and wonders about something if we ever make contact with aliens: Will they have a sense of humor? “I think the answer must be yes, because it’s about ...

Irreversible damage was done to the pharaoh’s body. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. November 2025 marks 100 years since ...

Until now, the earliest Egyptians to have even part of their DNA sequenced were three people who lived between 787 and 544 b.c. A team including geneticist Adeline Morez Jacobs of Liverpool John ...

Archaeologists have discovered 225 shabtis — figurines meant to work for the deceased in the afterlife — in a pharaoh's tomb. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Reports of archaeologists opening an untouched pyramid chamber overflowing with treasure have raced across social feeds, framed as a once‑in‑a‑lifetime discovery that rewrites Egyptian history. When I ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

Archaeologists working in the ancient Egyptian city of Tanis have revealed a funerary mystery: hundreds of figurines with the name of an unexpected pharaoh. A French archaeological mission headed by ...

Recently, archaeologists unearthed a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mining camp in the Sukari Mountains. Crews found evidence of ancient gold mining, processing, and purification. The archaeological ...

Evolutionary biologists have long believed that the human-biting mosquito, Culex pipiens form molestus, evolved from the bird-biting form, Culex pipiens form pipiens, in subways and cellars in ...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge discovered a full handprint on a clay “soul house” used in a burial setting. The 4,000-year-old Egyptian handprint is considered “rare” and will be part of a ...