Archaeologists recently discovered the remnants of an ancient Egyptian “pleasure boat” near the ruins of Cleopatra VII’s lost ...

Qin Shi Huang's tomb has remained sealed for over 2,200 years, but why haven't archaeologists attempted to peek inside?

Lost cities, missing tombs, and unexplained occurrences. History still holds unanswered questions for these seven events.

A boat belonging to an Egyptian pharaoh is being assembled in full view at the Grand Egyptian Museum’s exhibition hall.

History is full of the unknown, and for some reason, we as humans tend to concentrate on the mysterious things more than the ...

Every once in a while, archaeologists pull something out of the ground that makes us rethink what we thought we knew about ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...

There is no inscription or papyrus to confirm who the mother of Cleopatra VII was, but the information that exists about her and the world of the Ptolemaic period suggest that it was Queen Cleopatra V ...

An unprecedented discovery could reveal new information about Cleopatra’s reign. Just below the Mediterranean’s surface, in Alexandria’s harbor, lie the ruins of a mysterious ancient monument. For ...

Fun facts about Cleopatra: Although associated in the public mind with ancient Egypt, she lived closer to our time than to the building of the pyramids of Giza. When she was ruling Egypt and ...

Lyme — A newly discovered sunken port, 2,000-year-old coins and a 4,300-foot-long submerged tunnel revealed in Thursday’s release of the National Geographic special “Cleopatra’s Final Secret,” may be ...