New research suggests the engraving, which shows an elite individual sitting in a boat, may be up to 5,100 years old ...

A mummy in Egypt has yielded a shocking discovery: the DNA of the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis—thousands of years before ...

More than 150 conservators and 100 archaeologists labored quietly for over a decade to restore thousands of artefacts for the ...

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

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

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy pharaoh's golden mask in his hands.

NEW YORK — Workers digging at Manhattan's World Trade Center site 15 years ago made an improbable discovery: sodden timbers from a boat built during the Revolutionary War that had been buried ...

Arrayed like giant puzzle pieces on the museum floor, research assistants and volunteers spent weeks cleaning the timbers to prepare them for reassembly.