Cleostratus was a truly pioneering Greek astronomer who lived on the small Aegean island of Tenedos in the 6th century BC.

Nine Egyptians, freed after being held for 19 months by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, arrived in Egypt as the Sudanese army advanced in Khartoum, Sudan. REUTERS/Shokry Hussein 9 of 10 ...

This photo provided by João Zilhão shows forearm bone fragments belonging to an ancient child that appeared to have features from both humans and Neanderthals. (João Zilhão via AP) 33,571 ...

For the first time in more than a century, since Howard Carter unearthed the final resting place of King Tut, Egyptologists have uncovered a decorated royal tomb in the Luxor area, west of the ...

ASHBOURNE, England (AP) — This ancient form of soccer has a rule forbidding players from murdering each other. Every year, thousands of people descend on a small town in the English countryside ...

Even now, regional hangovers of this ancient calendar remain. May Morning in Padstow and Oxford are both markers of time against modernity. So too the Statutes Fair in Burton-on-Trent or the Abbots ...

The same question, along with alarming answers, has ricocheted through Egyptian, Arab and Israeli media. An Israeli website published an AI-generated scenario of an attack destroying Egypt’s ...

Earlier, Egypt's National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG ... Ramadan, the ninth month in the Hijri (Islamic) calendar, follows a lunar cycle, with each month starting ...