archaeology

The so-called mummy of a 15-year-old Incan girl sacrificed 500 years ago has a few secrets. The teenager suffered from a bacterial lung infection and was likely drugged at the time ...

Egypt has unveiled the 2,500-year-old mummy of a high priest at an ancient cemetery south of Cairo. Egyptologist ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 2,500-year-old Egyptian mummy on live television. “This is Discovery at its best–transporting fans into ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Archaeologists confirmed a long-time suspicion of historians and say that the famed Alcatraz prison was built over ...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa.—The national park on the site where George Washington and the struggling Continental Army endured a ...

A Mayan “ritual cave” that was untouched for 1,000 years was discovered by Mexican archaeologists. The cave system, ...

Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered an ancient burial site containing 50 mummies dating back to the Ptolemaic era in ...

Egypt unveiled a well-preserved 4,400-year-old tomb decorated with hieroglyphs and statues south of Cairo on Dec.15, and officials ...

Rare gold coins were discovered in the ancient Israeli port city of Caesarea, according to reports published this week. ...

A 1,500-year-old painting of Jesus Christ has been uncovered in southern Israel's Negev desert. Scientists discovered the painting ...

Marine archaeologists have discovered what they say is the world's oldest intact shipwreck, at 2,400 years old, in ...

FOURNI, Greece—Archaeologists have discovered at least 58 shipwrecks, many laden with antiquities, at an underwater ship graveyard in ...

Israeli archaeologists unveiled on Oct. 9 a 2,000-year-old inscription believed to be the first complete Hebrew spelling of ...

CAIRO—Egypt says archaeologists have discovered a "massive" ancient building in the town of Mit Rahina, 12 miles (20 ...

Archeologists have found a well-preserved statue of a sphinx in a temple in upper Egypt. Archeologists working on ...

NEW YORK —It looks a bit like a hashtag, but it's 73,000 years old. And scientists say this ...

WASHINGTON—The Hope Diamond, a rare blue diamond that is one of the world's most famous jewels, has had ...

PARIS—The 30 ft skeleton of a unidentified type of dinosaur, believed to be that of a new species, ...

The earliest known cases of cancer have been found in two Egyptian mummies. A team of scientists conducted ...

Giant kangaroos and tortoises as big as cars that once roamed Down Under weren't killed off by humans, according ...

A 3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet was translated last August and might rewrite the history of math, suggesting that trigonometry may ...

An amateur fossil hunter diving off the Florida Keys discovered an amazingly well-preserved ancient Native American burial site. ...

In a remarkable archeological find that challenges conventional wisdom, at least eight skulls were found without their jawbones ...

Discoveries regarding the unusual “Screaming Mummy” in Egypt spark even more questions as the mummy goes on display. ...

The first modern humans to live in what is now the UK had "dark to black" skin and blue ...