The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.

Though this hunt came up empty, the fact that 3I/ATLAS is only the third known object found in the solar system after ...

An Italian archaeological mission has discovered the remains of a sun temple belonging to an ancient Egyptian king near Cairo, the Egyptian antiquities ministry said. The temple of King Nyuserre is ...

A new archaeological discovery in central Egypt is shedding light on how death and the afterlife were envisioned during the Greco-Roman period. At a site near Al-Bahnasa, roughly 160 kilometers south ...

Visitors lining up to see Mexico’s famous mummies expect a brush with history, not a lesson in infectious disease and mold. Yet Mexican heritage officials now warn that at least one of these naturally ...

Scientists have reconstructed the most complete and lifelike profile of Edmontosaurus annectens thanks to an extraordinary preservation process called clay templating, in which a thin clay film ...

While excavating in the Valley of the Kings, an Egyptian worker on an archaeological dig discovered a partially obscured step. It would lead into the unlooted tomb of King Tut. When you purchase ...

New research has identified a dinosaur "mummy zone" in a series of ravines near Lusk, Wyoming. It's produced two mummies of a fleshy dinosaur with back spikes and hooves and scientists believe they ...

The mummified skull of a 30-year-old woman, over 2000 years old, collects dust from inside a box in the Anthropology Museum, faculty said. “Nile Woman,” found under ruins in Luxor, Egypt, was ...