The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys 150 years of Black artists turning to ancient Egypt.

Nov. 19, 2024 — Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of researchers has revealed new insights into how ancient ...

More than a century ago, the scientist Alfred Wegener proposed the notion of an ancient supercontinent ... that was quite noticeable on any accurate map, Murphy said. Another telltale hint ...

The Ancient Greek philosopher and geographer Anaximander, who was responsible for creating the very first map of the world. Credit: The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander, who was born in the third ...

By Jason Farago We call it Egypt; the Greeks called it Aigyptos; but the ancient civilization in ... a sculptor of the Harlem Renaissance, depicted “Ethiopia” — at the time a metonym for ...

What and how one learned depended on one's place in society. In ancient times, much like today, education was highly valued. Subjects could range from reading and writing to philosophy and ethics.

For the past 20 months, Ethiopia’s Amhara region has been torn apart by a bloody conflict between ... Six have been reportedly killed, and 11 kidnapped by unidentified criminal groups in the growing ...

The Greek Orthodox St Catherine’s Monastery where Hipparchus’s map of the sky was discovered. Credit: Joonas Plaan, CC BY 2.0/Wikipedia A map of the night sky created by the ancient Greek astronomer ...

While most of the world is in 2024, Ethiopia is still in 2017. This is because Ethiopia follows the Ge'ez calendar, which is seven to eight years behind the Gregorian calendar used by most countries.

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for centuries. Observers see stories in the plaster casts later made ...

Ancient DNA has revealed surprises about the ... But Mount Vesuvius’ eruption wiped it and other nearby Roman settlements off the map. The ash spewed by the volcano coated the bodies of people ...