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With the penny being ushered out of circulation early in the 21st century, theologians, historians, archaeologists and numismatists continue to glean insights from coins of the first century, when ...

The Nile nourishes a green band stretching through the desert, from the heart of Africa to the Mediterranean Sea. Along its ...

Researchers found a tiny bottle from ancient Rome that contained fecal residue and traces of aromatics, offering evidence ...

A study suggests hunger and stress may explain the Jesus temple cleansing, offering a human view of why tables were ...

Did you know that ancient Egyptians spent nearly half the year celebrating festivals? Around their temples, people would feast, dance, and even hold trials for the gods to give "verdicts". Temples ...

Crocodiles loomed large in the world of the ancient Egyptians. The Nile teemed with the lurking reptiles, and farmers, who made up most of the population, encountered them on a daily basis. While ...

BOONE — Rescued from rising waters, transported across an ocean and rebuilt in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the ancient Egyptian Temple of Dendur serves as an example of how history, often ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just when you may have thought that archaeologists have discovered all there is to find in Egypt, they uncover something new. This ...

Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient sun god temple in Egypt, which showed signs of being modified into a residential area after a century of use. Excavations at Abu Ghurab, about 16km (10 miles) ...