This suggests similar alabaster vessels from the time period—often made from soft calcite stone and used for perfumes and ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum's Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, ...

“Our findings, combined with prior research, indicate that opium use was more than accidental or sporadic in ancient Egyptian ...

On the eastern side of the Great Pyramid lies a basalt floor so precisely carved it raises more questions than answers. Could this be evidence of lost technology beyond the reach of tools known to ...

Findings published in the Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology, showed in “definitive evidence” for noscapine, hydrocotarnine, morphine, thebaine, and papaverine — which are all well-known ...

Ancient Egyptian wisdom guides daily life, with divine forces influencing your path. Each zodiac sign receives personalized ...

History Hit's Tristan Hughes travels to Egypt to explore its extraordinary links to one of the most famous names from antiquity, Alexander the Great. Of all the lands in the Eastern Mediterranean, it ...

Experts in Kent are to undertake a painstaking operation to relocate an Ancient Egyptian coffin lid to its new home. The ...

Ancient Canaanite ritual artifacts and 5,000-year-old winepress discovered at Tel Megiddo in Israel, the biblical site known ...

For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the ...

Spices, ancient treasures of human civilization, have shaped history from currency to royalty and medicine. Traces of their ...

Fireworks and drone spectacles lit up the Saharan night above a gala of Egyptian elite, heads of state, and foreign ...