Did a bankrupt Egypt attempt to hitch an anonymous ride for an unpopular pharaoh into immortality? His 225 personal retainers ...

No matter how much we dig, it seems there's always something new to discover. Quite literally. Each fascinating find brings ...

An isolated burial in Sudan has revealed the first evidence of an unknown funeral ritual that took place nearly 4,000 years ago in a little-known African kingdom, a new study finds.

Egyptian archaeologists located a lost 3,500-year-old cemetery containing mummies and statues—among other discoveries. They ...

Turkey unveiled dozens of new finds at a major archaeological site in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, giving fresh insight ...

Flowers, often part of Minoan and Egyptian art, were symbols of life, the afterlife, and rebirth, according to a study of ...

The Hong Kong Palace Museum will host Ancient Egypt Unveiled: Treasures from Egyptian Museums opening on 20 November 2025 and running until 31 August 2026, in a major exhibition organised in ...

A 3,500-year-old fortress from ancient Egypt has been discovered, featuring towers, zigzag walls, and ancient military ...

New find of 225 ushabti statues in Egypt may identify Pharaoh Sheshonq III’s sarcophagus and rewrite Third Intermediate ...

Ancient DNA has revealed a mysterious Indigenous group that lived in central Argentina for nearly 8,500 years, a new genetic study reports. Although the people of this newfound "deep lineage" lived at ...

Until now, the earliest Egyptians to have even part of their DNA sequenced were three people who lived between 787 and 544 b.c. A team including geneticist Adeline Morez Jacobs of Liverpool John ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...