In the slaveholding South, ancient Egypt and its pharaohs became a way to justify slavery. For abolitionists and African Americans, biblical Egypt served as a symbol of bondage and liberation.

A family cleaning their backyard in New Orleans discovered an unusual marble tablet with some characters in Latin. Daniella ...

Greek tradition presents Mopsus as one of the most famous seers in its mythology, a rival of the powerful Calchas, and the ...

RECAP: The US President was joined by world leaders in Egypt as he declared the talks over the next phase of his peace plan ...

LIVE: Hamas has released the first seven Israeli hostages as part of a monumental ceasefire agreement with Israel.

They came from the sea and left ruin in their wake. The Sea Peoples swept through the Mediterranean, leaving empires burning—and historians still don’t know who they were Donald Trump health update ...

Daniil and Nastya, both 21, had been dating for three years before their engagement, and spent the summer working in Crimea Daniil, 21, proposed to his girlfriend Nastya, also 21, while they were ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) -Ethiopia officially inaugurates Africa's largest hydroelectric dam on Tuesday, a project that will provide energy to millions of Ethiopians while deepening a rift with downstream ...

Egyptian archaeologists pulled 2,000-year-old statues and relics from the Mediterranean Sea Thursday, according to the Greek Reporter. Divers and crane operators retrieved royal statues, sphinxes and ...

The Category 2 hurricane isn’t expected to make landfall. Still, it’s drawing notice as the first named storm to reach hurricane strength this year. By Eduardo Medina and Rick Rojas Eduardo Medina ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Some family members of people being held in Minnesota prisons say the state is moving too slowly in creating a new system to allow incarcerated people to use tablet computers. The ...

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA, MASS. (WHDH) - Rescue crews in Manchester-by-the-Sea pulled five people to safety from a sinking sailboat on Thursday. Officials say a Marine Patrol spotted the boat sitting low ...