The ancient Egyptians built animal necropoli, mummifying their non-human friends so they might join them in the afterlife. But the pet cemetery as we now know it, says Koudounaris, began in ...

Archaeologists from Durham University and the University of Al-Qadisiyah in Iraq claim to have discovered the site of the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah, a hugely important early Islamic conflict that ...

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1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led archeologists to what they believe is the site of a seventh-century battle that was decisive in the spread of Islam in the region.

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1. The first urban cemetery. Humans have paid homage to companion animals for millennia. The ancient Egyptians built animal necropoli, mummifying their non-human friends so they might join them in ...