Claims that researchers discovered previously unknown structures beneath the Pyramid of Khafre — the pyramid situated in the ...

(Photo by Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images) So advanced was Ancient Egypt’s use of copper that Pharaoh Sahure, of the 5th Dynasty, had copper plumbing inside of his funerary ...

“To the King of Egypt, my brother ... a center of the copper trade, which was the island’s main source of wealth. Unlike the nearby ancient city of Salamis whose Roman ruins stand to this ...

Since the birth of humanity people have fought each other. Over time the ancient weapons have been replaced by more ...

The researchers claim to have discovered eight vertical cylinder-shaped structures, referred to as shafts, extending ...

The Egyptians were among the first to use cosmetics and perfumes ... burnt almonds, lead, oxidized copper, ochre, ash, malachite and chrysocolla, a blue-green copper ore. Such measures were intended ...

The copper currency research is part of a project to study a peculiar practice throughout ancient Europe: Valuables, like bronze objects, were buried or thrown into rivers, uncovered later by ...