The name Djoser, written in a cartouche, has not been found in an inscription of the Old Kingdom. On his own monuments the king writes his Horus-name, Netjerykhet. There is no doubt that these two ...

In the late 100s, Bishop Melito of Sardis (in modern Turkey) was pressed by a friend to obtain “an accurate statement of the ancient books ... Old Testament is arranged in four sections: law ...

The discovery of more than half a million documents spanning the period of the Old Testament ... the ancient Near East. Such a study is an essential preliminary to any adequate critical study of the ...

But there are many lesser-known facts about this very old and influential book. Here are 20 ancient facts about the Bible, its teachings, and history that you probably didn't know until now.

Photo by Annette Hornischer / American Academy in Berlin 2019 01 25 Jared Farmer’s Elderflora is a fascinating history of the world ... sequoias, the old trees of the entire Pacific Rim ...

Nothing ever really dies in India. That which is old is perennially revived and recast as the new. In the domain of ...

Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... for centuries. The books of the Old Testament recount the ...

The flora of the places now called Gaza, Israel and the West Bank tell the history of a blended people ... It's said to be ...

A new study upends myths about pre-colonial religious rites while deepening understanding of Indigenous history ...

Ancient Greeks used a 'miracle' plant called Silphium, which was thought to have gone extinct 2,000 years ago, has now been ...

Maya farmers and researchers explain milpa farming. In my book, “Rooting in a Useless Land: Ancient Farmers, Celebrity Chefs, ...

A 4,000-year-old Egyptian skull ... Dr Camarós and colleagues are now looking further abroad in the history of ancient cancer. "Our next steps are trying to understand the relationship humans ...