An ancient Egyptian board game piece was repurposed centuries later in Sudan into a dazzling gold-and-amethyst pendant.

The air is quiet but charged with energy, like the moments after a lightning bolt arcs across the sky during a thunderstorm. Then, the thunder returns – the drum rumbles. The lions have arrived, ...

One of the lion's head discs discovered in the grave Dafna Gazit / Israel Antiquities Authority Archaeologists have discovered four bronze discs in a 1,900-year-old Roman grave in central Israel. The ...

There aren't any native lion or tiger populations living in Japan today, but this was not always the case. Fossil evidence indicates that at least one species of large cat roamed the archipelago ...

Egypt on Saturday unveiled a cache of 75 wooden and bronze statues and five lion cub mummies decorated with hieroglyphics at the Saqqara necropolis near the Giza pyramids in Cairo. Mummified cats, ...

Eswatini in southern Africa is home to the world’s oldest ochre mine. A new study dates that mine to a full 48,000 years ago. Ochre is a clay-based pigment that was incredibly popular at that time, ...

NEW ORLEANS EAST (WVUE) -Dating back 1,000 to 2,000 years, the art of lion dancing is ancient. On a warm and humid February afternoon in New Orleans East, the performers bringing their hollowed and ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — As you walk into the Las Vegas Kung Fu Academy in the southwest valley, cultural pride can be found within its four walls. A group of colorful lions are in there training to ward ...

In Rome’s Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial spectacles were not merely human-versus-human affairs. Gladiators also were ...