Today, the scarab remains a focus of popular devotion through a tourist tradition: people circle it - often seven times - seeking luck, love, or a wish fulfilled, echoing (in a modern, secular form) ...

The Eleusinian Mysteries were secret religious rites in ancient Greece honoring the goddess Demeter and her daughter ...

Like something out of Stargate SG1, hieroglyphs lie hidden within a remote sandstone canyon in the deep bush of Australia—hoax or history?

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Why are so many statues naked? – Artie, age 12, ...

There is an ancient temple in Greece that is almost intact, standing at the top of the hill of Agoraios Colonos next to the ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

Skateholm’s importance is not only that it is large, but that it preserves a long span of hunter-gatherer life and death. The Swedish History Museum notes the area around the lagoon was used for ...

The first historically recorded pandemic is believed to have struck the walled city of Jirash, in what is now modern-day ...

According to a statement released by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a new study conducted by Ari Matmon of the Hebrew ...

Ancient followers of the Eleusinian Mysteries may have used a highly toxic fungus to create psychedelic hallucinations during ...