Eight broken limestone pieces from Khuwy's tomb at Saqqara hold an ideal biography naming King Djedkare and Queen Setibhor.
DNA from a 5th-century boat burial in Germany reveals a man with ancient leprosy whose ancestry points to the Roman Danube ...
Archaeologists at Old Dongola in Sudan reached the floor of the Great Church of Jesus and found a hidden church with Greek ...
A dig at Sidi Saïd, Tunisia, reveals a nearly complete Numidian house plan, Carthaginian pottery and a pre-Roman cemetery ...
A 28,000-year-old Gravettian couple from Grotta delle Veneri di Parabita goes on display at the MuSA museum in Lecce, Italy, from November 5.
Marburg researchers detect aloe compounds in ancient Egyptian embalming material and link a mummified head to a separate ...
A 1,500-km survey of Arabia's Rub' al Khali found ancient lakes but no tools, showing early humans needed stone as much as water.
Archaeologists in Pompeii opened a wardrobe sealed since 79 CE, revealing a woman's keepsakes, 38 coins, and a childhood ...
Archaeologists at Saqqara uncovered the tomb of Weni, an Old Kingdom official, with rare wooden statues and bronze tools that ...
Radiocarbon dates and lead isotope tests at Las Minillas in Spain link a Late Bronze Age copper mine to bronzes found in ...
A student found an intact 6-inch Lehigh/Koens-Crispin spear point, up to 4,500 years old, in a tidal inlet on a Virginia ...
Study of cloth traces on 101 Sanxingdui artifacts shows the ancient Shu used silk in Late Shang rituals, with dyed, layered ...