A reassessment of damaged 3,500-year-old statuary adds to evidence that Queen Hatshepsut wasn’t the villain that scholars ...

By sequencing ancient DNA from the fetus, scientists revealed a severe genetic bottleneck that reshaped Neanderthal history ...

The ancient world was replete with a myriad of fascinating civilizations, many of which are no longer remembered.

Rising energy costs caused by the Iran war have forced Egypt to hike fuel and cooking gas prices, hitting the country's ...

More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck ...

In July 2018, archaeologists in Alexandria, Egypt, cracked open a colossal 27-tonne black granite sarcophagus at an ...

New 3D scans of ancient Egyptian granite vases are revealing levels of symmetry and geometric precision that rival modern manufactured parts. Instead of a single anomaly, multiple artifacts are now ...

Buried in the deserts of the Near East, Egypt, and Central Asia, ancient libraries with troves of knowledge and wisdom have been uncovered.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Original photograph of the artifact published in 1927 (L) and the actual artifact, February 20, 2026. (photo credit: Guy Brunton, ...

How would a New York Times obituary writer measure up to the scribes of the Book of the Dead? He found out at the Brooklyn Museum. A detail of the gilded Book of the Dead of Ankhmerwer, a funerary ...

He turned “cat burglar” into a job description. A 52‑year‑old man has been charged after an Egyptian cat sculpture and “priceless” artifacts were stolen from an Australian history museum, Queensland ...

In a recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, Wanyue Zhao and her colleagues used volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to analyze the composition of scents given off by mummies ...