Humans have always needed a place to jot things down. Long before sticky notes and smartphone reminders, the people of ancient Egypt recorded their shopping lists, school exercises, religious ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists discovered the largest trove of ostraca—inscriptions on broken pottery sherds—ever found, with over 43,000 pieces ...

Would you think more carefully about what you write on those little yellow Post-it notes if you knew they were going to be preserved for over 2,000 years? Recently, archeologists have discovered a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — The powerful gods of ancient ...

Ceramic fragments lay on the ground at the Garoa Hallagana rock art site, in Ennedi Ouest province, Chad, on July 10, 2025. JORIS BOLOMEY JORIS BOLOMEY/AFP via Getty Images Imagine holding a piece of ...

NEW YORK — The powerful gods of ancient Egypt are having a get-together on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. That would be at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s been more than a decade since the museum’s ...