Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Hamadryas baboon in Eritrea (left). An African sacred Ibis perched on a rock in South Africa (right). "Why would two such ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have discovered the "richly decorated" tomb of an ...

The so-called “tramp stamp” isn’t a sign of trashiness — it’s early women’s tradition. A recent discovery has lead researchers to believe that ancient Egyptian women were adorned with lower back ...

Few plants are more celebrated in Egyptian mythology than the blue lotus, a stunning water lily that stars in some of archaeology's most significant discoveries. Researchers found its petals covering ...

A University of South Florida professor found the first-ever physical evidence of hallucinogens in an Egyptian mug, validating written records and centuries-old myths of ancient Egyptian rituals and ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Researchers have shed new light on "magical" texts created centuries ...

Archaeologists have unearthed one of the Roman world's strangest recent finds during an excavation beneath a town square in the Netherlands. Scientists have translated sections of a 2nd-century AD ...

Robert K. Ritner Jr. was a professor of Egyptology at the University of Chicago who, in addition to being a noted scholar, had a reputation for bringing his ancient subject alive through the ...