Every once in a while, archaeologists pull something out of the ground that makes us rethink what we thought we knew about ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Underwater archaeologists have made a fascinating discovery near where the iconic military leader is believed to be buried.

History is full of the unknown, and for some reason, we as humans tend to concentrate on the mysterious things more than the ...

Long before Cleopatra and Hatshepsut, Ankhnespepy II amassed unprecedented political and religious power. Here's how.

Over 2,100 ancient jars can be found scattered through the Xiangkhoang Plateau in Laos, but who made them, and why?

The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

A 2,000-year-old tomb discovered in Heerlen, Netherlands, contained the remains of a Roman soldier. The site was first believed to be a cellar, but was determined to be a tomb after the discovery of ...

Few personalities from classical antiquity are more famous, yet more poorly understood, than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In the centuries since her death in 30 BC, she has been endlessly portrayed ...