Greek and Roman rock-cut tombs discovered near Aswan’s Aga Khan Mausoleum offer new insights into burial customs in ancient Egypt.

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

Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, archaeologists have uncovered the final resting place of Philip II, the father of Alexander ...

Yi Wong re-examines the destruction of Hatshepsut's statues, suggesting ritualistic deactivation rather than revenge by ...

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

The tomb of King Tutankhamun was discovered in November 1922 by Howard Carter, but several members of the excavation team, ...

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

In a startling development, archaeologists say these mysterious skeletons are the father and son of this legendary ruler.

In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy king’s relatives among mummies thought to belong to the royal family ...

The sequencing of a genome extracted from the remains of an individual from ancient Egypt has revealed that 77.6% of their ...

From the pyramids of Egypt to the jungle-choked ruins of Angkor Wat, from the magical desert capital of the Nabateans in ...