The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

A French team of excavators found hundreds of funerary figurines in a pharaoh's tomb in Tanis, Egypt, in early October, uncovering a long-standing mystery of who was buried in the sarcophagus.A ...

A mummy found in Mexico shows signs of a possible living mold. Officials warn that exposure could pose a risk to visitors and ...

Researchers from Cairo and Munich uncovered “air-filled voids” beneath Menkaure pyramid’s eastern face, suggesting a long-suspected hidden entrance. Using electrical resistivity tomography, radar, and ...

Two voids detected on the eastern side of the Pyramid of Menkaure on Egypt's Giza plateau hint at a second, hidden entrance to the pyramid, according to a new study. The pyramid was built during the ...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge discovered a full handprint on a clay “soul house” used in a burial setting. The 4,000-year-old Egyptian handprint is considered “rare” and will be part of a ...

The origins of domestic cats — centuries before they conquered the world’s sofas and internet memes — have long been murky. Now, ancient DNA is helping to fill in the blanks, and the findings shake up ...

A treasure trove of 225 funerary figurines have been discovered inside a tomb in the ancient Egyptian capital of Tanis in the ...

Archaeologists recently unveiled an Egyptian vase inside what was once a fast-food kitchen in Pompeii. In a Nov. 6 Facebook post, the Pompeii Archaeological Park said the ceramic situla, or vase, was ...

Excavations in central China uncovered a 5,000-year-old tomb filled with artifacts from the Dawenkou Culture. Experts believe the size of the tomb and wealth of the artifacts show the owner was a ...