Archaeologists have unearthed a Sphinx-like Roman-era statue and the remains of a shrine in an ancient temple in southern ...

Egyptologists have discovered a 4,300-year-old mummy inside of a Pharaonic tomb, according to Zahi Hawass, the director of an excavation team working at Saqqara, 12 miles south of Cairo.

CENTURIES after the first golden coffins were taken to Europe, ancient Egyptian mummies still vividly capture people’s ...

It's the second recently-discovered hidden passageway in Khufu's pyramid, with an even longer 98-feet-long corridor being ...

Grave robbers cut open an ancient mummy and discarded it near a dumpster in Yemen, officials said. Photo from the General ...

Leicester is one of the most excavated cities in Britain, as it was originally the site of a Roman town named Ratae ...

the oldest example of tattooing in general come courtesy of the mummy known as Ötzi who was discovered in Europe back in 1991. Ötzi’s tattoos, unlike those found on the young Egyptians ...

Scandinavian scientists said Wednesday that they have identified the oldest-known inscription referencing ... second half of the 6th century. The disc discovered in Denmark was part of a trove ...

A team of Scandinavia-based scientists discovered a fossilized Ichthyosaur, a prehistoric aquatic reptile, in a rock that is dated to just after the end-Permian mass extinction (EPME). The study ...

at least 150 years earlier than the previous oldest known reference, which was on a brooch found in southern Germany and dated to the second half of the sixth century. The disc discovered in ...