Its name derives from an ancient Kongo word for spiritual leaders ... (Photo: Tom Franks, United Kingdom, Finalist, Professional competition, Portraiture, 2025 Sony World Photography Awards ...

It’s wonderful to imagine kangaroos almost four times the size of big reds hopping around ancient Australia, but this lot ...

UK photographer Zed Nelson's four-continent project, highlighting humanity's complex relationship with nature, earned him ...

Researchers found the older ancient Egyptian settlement while they were studying the Greek one. An unexpected discovery of mudbrick dating to the New Kingdom (circa 1550 to 1070 B.C.) revealed the ...

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh ... BC to 1540 BC and bridged the Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom eras when Egyptian ...

Speaking to Fox News Digital, Nick Angeloff, an anthropology professor and archaeologist with Cal Poly Humboldt, said it appears likely the site is Lyncus, the lost capital of the Kingdom of ...

After a pope dies, the Catholic Church chooses its next leader through an ancient electoral process called the "papal conclave." In practice, since at least 1276, the conclave gathers the church ...

Apr. 14, 2025 — Wealth inequality began shaping human societies more than 10,000 years ago, long before the rise of ancient empires or the invention of writing. That's according to a new study ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a ... Teotihuacan was essentially decapitating a kingdom,” Houston said. “They removed the king and replaced him with a quisling ...

Ancient beliefs, behaviors and norms – what archaeologists call culture – were fundamentally integrated into technological solutions in this part of Peru in ancient times. Isolating and ...