Throughout human history, volcanic eruptions have wreaked havoc on civilizations, causing drastic climatic shifts, failed ...

With a population over 15 million, Baladi dogs are everywhere—and often mistreated or killed. But that’s starting to change.

The ancient Egyptians celebrated the new year in a variety of ways, including having feasts, giving gifts, and exposing statues of gods to sunlight so they could be "regenerated." When you ...

According to their findings, an ancient culture practiced a religious ... coast of Peru between 100 and 800 AD, engaged in human sacrifice practices. In 2005, the remains of six individuals ...

The ancient Egyptians believed that gold tongues could ... showing King Ptolemy VIII (reign circa 170 to 116 B.C.) offering sacrifices to the lion-headed goddess Repit and her son Kolanthes.

Investigators extracted and sequenced ancient DNA from the teeth and bones of all six individuals. Radiocarbon dating places five of those remains around 500 CE, while one grandparent figure ...

Archaeologists have revealed a previously undocumented form of ritual sacrifice involving close relatives among the elites of an ancient culture ... a known form of human sacrifice in the Moche ...

Archaeologists have revealed evidence of a never-before-seen sacrifice of family members belonging to the ancient Andean Moche ... these people practiced human sacrifice as part of their rituals.

Andrew Murray Threipland unbolts a heavy iron yett (a latticed gate), and we walk in single file down the passage to the ...

An international team of researchers recently uncovered evidence that ancient Egyptians were engaged in experimental treatments or medical explorations of human cancer over 4,000 years ago.