A study led by Professor Dan Lawrence, of Durham University in the UK, found that across 10 millennia, more unequal ...

Researchers made the “extraordinary” find while excavating a 1,600-square-foot necropolis — an ancient cemetery with ornate ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...

Scientists in France may be hot on the trail of a long-lost canal that the Romans built over two millennia ago while battling ...

what would future archaeologists discover about us? What do these objects all say about what we hold dear, what we treasure and what we value?" said Lisa Tung, the museum's executive director.

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the vast desert during its greener past.

"They didn't think about archaeologists in the future that would be looking for bits and pieces of evidence," he added. "We've completed the full excavation of it and what it was, you know, was ...

Researchers discovered a royal tomb that is over 3,600 years old in Abydos, Egypt. The entryway of the tomb was decorated with inscriptions dedicated to Isis and Nephthys, goddesses of the afterlife.