Major discovery marks culmination of 40 years of work by Arlen and Diane Chase. Archaeologists from the University of Houston have discovered the tomb of Te K’ab Chaak at Caracol, an ancient Maya city ...

Generations of creatives have looked back to ancient Egypt in their search for art and design inspiration—here are three ...

"It's amazing how people so far apart developed such similar aesthetics." Such a sense of resonance and discovery is fueling ...

Archaeologists uncovered an ancient carved wooden mask in Lake Lednica, Poland, offering rare insight into early Slavic ...

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 ...

More than 30 million people globally have done a family history DNA test, but few realise this multi-billion dollar ...

The Saqqara Necropolis, the burial ground for the ancient capital city of Memphis located south of Cairo, recently announced the discovery of another 100 sarcophagi found in three new burial shafts at ...

Do you know a lot about the ancient Egyptian dead, or do you need to ask your mummy?

Most people know what an ancient Egyptian mummy looks like, but they probably can’t tell you about how they smell. You don’t have to wait to get up-close-and-personal to one in a museum to ...

Discover the Aromas of Ancient Egyptian Mummies, From Orange Peels to Pine to Incense A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies detected woody, spicy, herbal and rancid notes ...

The discovery of bubonic plague remnants in mummy DNA, however, appears to finally provide proof of its existence in ancient Egypt.