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

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 ...

A fairytale-like castle, a sunken port city in the Caribbean, and mysterious cave paintings: Which of these places will be ...

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

In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy ...

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

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

Researchers have sequenced the genome of an ancient Egyptian who was buried in a pot nearly 5,000 years ago, about the time ...

Even in their natural state, some asperigimycins killed leukemia cells in lab tests. But the researchers went further. By ...

In a groundbreaking scientific discovery, an international research team has successfully sequenced the first whole ancient ...