It is mentioned in the Old Testament as a messenger of fertility and was sacred to the ancient Egyptians as the symbol of the afterworld ... Syria and southern Anatolia: its loud colonies nesting ...

Yet despite a wealth of data and new techniques including ancient DNA analysis ... at the site of Hallan Çemi in southeastern Anatolia, archaeologists unearthed 51,000 animal bones dating ...

The Eye of Horus is frequently found in ancient Egyptian burials, particularly on wedjat amulets.

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are restoring the legend of a forgotten superpower.

The team applied ancient DNA sequencing, strontium and lead isotope analysis, and forensic osteological assessments, alongside detailed study of beadwork composition, metallurgical artifacts ...

Food and agriculture experts from the United Nations issued a warning about a growing bird flu crisis amid widespread poultry infections and spillover into people and animals worldwide.

March 24 (Reuters) - Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of people, raising concerns that it may lead to human-to ...

Apr. 4, 2025 — A hidden threat facing one of Australia's most iconic birds has been uncovered in a new study. The critically endangered regent honeyeater once numbered in the hundreds of ...

Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an alarming number of mammals. Yet people remain largely untouched. Even though ...

It may look like just another random boulder, but this old Spanish rock bears engraved lines that could be an astounding 200,000 years old, according to government officials. The age of the lines ...