George Mason University Political Scientist Jack Goldstone joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...

November 2025 marks 100 years since archaeologists first examined Tutankhamun’s mummified remains. What followed wasn’t scientific triumph – it was destruction. Using hot knives and brute force, ...

The story depicted on the ˁAin Samiya goblet—an 8 cm tall silver vessel from the Intermediate Bronze Age (c. 2650–1950 ...

The goblet gives us this very detailed picture of what people in 2300 BC had in mind about what the cosmos looked like before ...

Finally,’ the Grand Egyptian Museum officially opened on November 1. The museum, whose opening was repeatedly postponed, left ...

Odysseus: In Greek mythology, Odysseus is a character in The Iliad and the main protagonist of The Odyssey. Petros: Rock, ...

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

Louis XIV was King of France for a whopping 72 years. As his sobriquet, “The Sun King,” suggests, Louis came to symbolize the ...

Excerpted from Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations by Sam Kean. Copyright ...

CAIRO, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- The official opening of Egypt's Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is expected to boost the country's tourism industry and inject fresh momentum into its economy, tourism experts ...

THE NOVEMBER FULL MOON, ALSO KNOWN AS THE BEAVER MOON, EXPECTED TO BE AT PEAK ILLUMINATION TOMORROW MORNING. 8:19 A.M. NOW, ACCORDING TO THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC, THE NOVEMBER MOON GETS ITS NAME ...