Long before telescopes and space travel, ancient civilizations had incredibly creative ideas about what the universe looked ...

Samar Nour's Asha, the Scarab and the Moon ventures into the heart of Nubian folklore, collective memory, and feminist resistance. Blending magical realism with oral tradition, the novel marks Nour's ...

An Archaeologist has uncovered evidence of a lost civilization' that hid a sophisticated code around the world.

History is often taught as if astronomy followed a single European arc—from Greek philosophy to Renaissance telescopes to modern science—while Africa appears absent or myth-bound. This series, “When ...

The team then developed two ways to present ancient scents to the public. Alongside the artifacts that inspired this project, ...

The ancient Egyptians believed that life on earth was only part of an eternal journey that ended not in death, but in eternal ...

If you have ever stood close to an ancient Egyptian mummy, you may remember a distinctive, lingering odor. For a long time, ...

CT scans used by Keck Medicine of USC have revealed health secrets in two ancient Egyptian priests, offering insight into ...

High-resolution imaging conducted at USC reveals evidence of chronic pain, dental disease and possible surgical intervention ...

Keck Medicine of USC radiologists use computed tomography (CT) scanners to diagnose and treat patients' diseases and injuries. Recently, however, this advanced technology was put to a far more novel ...

As previously reported, Egyptian embalming is thought to have begun in the Predynastic Period or earlier, when people noticed that the arid desert heat tended to dry and preserve bodies buried in the ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.