A grim study of more than 500 Ancient Egyptian tombs has unveiled shocking evidence of what happened to corpses after they ...

For over 2,000 years, the location of Cleopatra’s tomb has remained one of the greatest mysteries in archaeology. But now, ...

Generations of creatives have looked back to ancient Egypt in their search for art and design inspiration—here are three ...

The recent discovery off the Turkish coast has surprised the world. A treasure ship more than 2,000 years old has been discovered, revealing hundreds of well-preserved ceramics and ...

Her body was positioned to face the setting sun at the winter solstice, while her sarcophagus was aligned with the heliacal rising of Sirius; the brightest star in the sky, associated with the annual ...

"It's amazing how people so far apart developed such similar aesthetics." Such a sense of resonance and discovery is fueling ...

A recent drought in Spain uncovered a 7,000-year-old megalithic monument, older than Egypt's pyramids. Rating: Mixture (About ...

A piece of ancient Egyptian petroglyph dating back to the First Dynasty offers new insights into the origins of the state.

Researchers led by Tohoku University’s Motoyuki Sato used GPR—along with a method known as electrical resistivity tomography ...

This year, archaeologists have discovered quite a few old relics. They have discovered 2,200-year-old pyramids in Egypt and also Mayan cities in a Guatemalan jungle . Now, they have discovered more ...

A mummy in Egypt has yielded a shocking discovery: the DNA of the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis—thousands of years before ...

Constructed pyramids have long been thought of as one of the peaks of human engineering. Despite the structures standing for thousands of years, archaeologists are still working to learn how the ...