Pharaoh Shoshenq III had been buried in this tomb even though he had already built a larger one elsewhere in city of Tanis.

The tomb and its personal artifacts are some of the first true pieces of evidence of an early Roman presence in the area. The ...

A crown was left with the deceased, but its position indicated her reign may not have ended the way she would have liked.

The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

A rare untouched tomb from the Etruscans, a civilization that predated the Roman Republic, has been discovered in central Italy. The tomb, carved from stone in the shape of a small house, contains the ...

Researchers in Belize discovered what may be the tomb of Caracol’s first dynastic leader, Te K’ab Chaak. Previous excavations at Caracol revealed two more burial sites, both dating back to a similar ...

Archaeologists working in the historic Turkish city of İznik have revealed a stunning third-century fresco depicting Jesus as the "Good Shepherd"—the only known example of this iconic Christian motif ...

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The young pharaoh's tomb, initially discovered by a British archaeologist in 1922, is one of the most well-known in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt Mostafa Elshemy/Anadolu Agency/Getty A ...

Check out the surprising find archaeologists made at famed ancient city. French archaeologist Henri Duday of National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), shows a Samnite tomb of the fourth century ...