A Belgium-based Egyptologist has discovered the oldest depictions of ancient Egyptian demons, showing that demonic entities populated the ancient Egyptians' imaginations as far back as 4,000 years ...

An Associate Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Portsmouth in the UK, Or Graur, discovered what is believed to be the oldest known depiction of the Milky Way in ancient Egyptian art.

Books that changed the world: Gilgamesh through the sands of time. The epic antedates even the depiction of the famous Trojan war; it is, in effect, the oldest epic found till date.

In addition to stylized depictions of women, the etchings appear to portray animals crucial to the survival of Late Upper Paleolithic peoples (roughly 24,000 to 14,000 years ago), including woolly ...

Dated to around 40,000 years ago, the sculptures represent some of the oldest examples of figurative art, and the tiny carved bird is the oldest depiction of a bird anywhere in the world.