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

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 ...

An ancient Greek shipwreck was uncovered just a few feet below the surface off the coast of the Italian island of Sicily.

The remains of a talented healer and 'priest and magician' who was thought to have treated pharaohs have been found in Egypt, ...

"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 ...

The discovery of Userkaf, who was the founder and first ruler of Egypt's fifth dynasty has helped researchers understand ...

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

British archaeologists recently helped uncover multistory buildings from the ancient Egyptian city Imet in the Nile Delta, ...