archaeology

An ancient Greek hand-powered analog computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses.

A period of widespread societal collapse and transition in the Aegean, Eastern Mediterranean, and Near East around 1200 BCE.

Ancient Jewish manuscripts discovered between 1946 and 1956 in caves near the Dead Sea, dating from the 3rd century BCE to the 1st century CE, comprising biblical, apocryphal, and sectarian texts.

Hatshepsut was one of the most successful female pharaohs of ancient Egypt, ruling during the Eighteenth Dynasty of the New Kingdom.

A period of widespread societal collapse, state failure, and cultural disruption across the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East during the early 12th century BCE.

A 15th-century Inca citadel situated on a mountain ridge in the Cusco Region of Peru.

An ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BC, which became the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs.