The macabre world of ancient Egyptian ritual sacrifice may have contributed to the domestication of cats, new research ...

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When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...

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This week’s Torah reading has a surprising declaration by God: I am the Eternal, Who raises you up from the land of Egypt ...

The 3,300-year-old monument has sat in the French capital's center for almost 200 years, but no one else noticed these ...

By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

To members of the faith community: Let us not become numb. Let us not allow loyalty to party or policy to override our ...

Archaeologists in Egypt discover mummified crocodiles dating back over 3,000 years near Aswan. Found in sacred sites ...

The picture of a whole lamb slowly turning on the spit over charcoal and the smell that accompanies it spells Easter Sunday ...

While keeping the long-dead crocodilian intact, McKnight and her team also “virtually” recreated the bronze hook lodged in ...