The 40,000-year-old site may hold the world's southernmost traces of early human life.

A long cooling period may have led to famine in Greenland and Iceland more than 1,000 years ago.

Jewish sites are as much a part of Egypt's culture as Muslim mosques or Coptic churches, according to Egypt's Ministry of Culture.

Click on image to zoom in. Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) One loaf of bread and one jug of beer: that's what Egypt's Queen Behenu was offered during her funeral, according to a translation of hieroglyphics engraved on white stone ...