Hannah Chin and Nate Rott of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the building blocks of birdsong, the evolutionary history of avocados and Egyptian warrior princesses.

The pyramids are often treated like an impossible mystery, but this transcript makes a different argument: ancient Egyptians ...

An Egyptian archaeological mission has uncovered three rock-cut tombs dating to Egypt's New Kingdom period (ca. 1550–1070 B.C.) at the Bubasteion Necropolis in Saqqara. The news ...

Up to 230 homes could be built on farmland near Whittington, with forty-three per cent proposed as affordable. Developers say the scheme would provide open space and new walking routes, but objectors ...

A fourth-century basilica church and archive of 200 written documents emerged from excavations by archaeologists at the Ain al-Sabil site in Egypt's Dakhla Oasis.

For over a decade, a team from Sweden's University of Gothenburg has been excavating tombs just outside a Bronze Age city ...

THE school summer holidays are upon us, with six weeks to fill to entertain the kids. If you’re looking for fun for the whole ...