A massive 5,000-year-old tomb has been uncovered in central China, revealing a trove of ancient artifacts and raising new questions about early civilizations ...

Archaeologists from the University of Houston have discovered the first royal tomb at the sprawling Maya site of Caracol, in Belize.

A major breakthrough in Maya archaeology has emerged from Caracol, Belize, where the University of Houston team uncovered the ...

The mysterious tomb of Alexander the Great may not have been found yet, but do we at least know what it looked like?

Before Egypt’s dynasties, rural rituals and astral burials shaped beliefs that later defined the divine and sacred order.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered the 1,700-year-old tomb of the earliest known ruler of the ancient Maya city of Caracol. The tomb of Te K’ab Chaak, who once ruled over what is now modern-day ...

Nefertari was the beloved wife of Rameses II, and her extravagant tomb proves it. Its restored paintings tell an interesting ...

The Mummy cast had a major reunion nearly 30 years after the blockbuster movie was made. Brendan Fraser (Rick O'Connell), ...

Exploring Grand Palaces, seeing Egyptian mummies and gazing at the Holy Shroud are some of the things to do in Turin. This ...

In Cairo’s City of the Dead, where homes are mausoleums and communities have grown among the graves, residents speak out ...

WASHINGTON – Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...