One of the most famous tombs in all of Egypt was holding a family secret: another body.
Archaeologists excavating in Hammar found a 5,000-year-old sacrificial site complete with a stone walkway and countless ...
A new study has shattered historians' long-held assumptions about some of the people who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption in ...
Scientists at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History have peered beneath the wrappings of ancient Egyptian mummified human ...
Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have used ancient DNA to challenge long-held interpretations of the people of Pompeii. Contrary to physical appearances, the DNA evidence revealed unexpected ...
Back in the 1970s, when archaeologists excavated a skeleton from an ancient graveyard in Belgium, they thought they had found ...
If you are looking for some wonder and whimsy from the animal kingdom to lift your spirits this week—some uplifting tale of a shrew that is so small that it sails on gusts of wind, or a fossil of an ...
The burial is called a “composite inhumation,” a practice in which a group will build a skeleton for social purposes from the ...
The artifacts discovered inside a tomb of 11 Egyptian burials from the height of the country’s Middle Kingdom offer a fresh ...
EU researchers are testing DNA from archaeological cat remains to help unravel the tale of cat domestication. It probably ...
Your support makes all the difference. A video by paramotorist Marshall Mosher went viral earlier this month as it showed a dog on top of Egypt’s Giza pyramid. It left people online wondering ...
Please verify your email address. Famous skeletons in movies have been captivating audiences for decades, from the stop-motion skeleton army in Jason and the Argonauts to the cursed skeleton crew ...