Representation of the zodiac sign Sagittarius (all photos by Ahmed Emam, courtesy Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities) Archaeologists have resurfaced a complete series of the zodiac painted almost ...

A 22-centimeter alabaster vase, inscribed to the Persian king Xerxes I, has revealed that narcotics were part of everyday ...

A 3,200-year-old round bronze tablet with a carved face of a woman, found at the El-ahwat excavation site near Katzir in central Israel, is part of a linchpin that held the wheel of a battle chariot ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

A beaded full-size trailer, an ancient Egyptian relief linked to King Tutankamun, and a cache of watercolors by an artist whose work was often attributed to her more famous brother are among the 200 ...

Opium use may have been widespread in ancient Egyptian culture—including potentially among notable kings. Yale researchers found chemical traces of opiates in an ancient alabaster vase at the Peabody ...

Rafi Bahalul found the artifact off the coast of Israel. Rafi Bahalul was taking a morning swim off the shores of Atlit, Israel, when he spotted hieroglyphs in the seabed. "I saw it, kept on swimming ...