History is full of captivating stories, but some chapters remain frustratingly blank. Whether it’s Amelia Earhart’s ultimate ...

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

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

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

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a burial unlike anything seen before—sealed for over 2,000 years, the tomb held ...

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

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting ...

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

A new exhibit at San Francisco’s Walt Disney Family Museum aims to chart the beginnings and early evolution of the Anaheim, ...

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 ...

The hat lay flattened and moth-eaten for more than a century in a museum box. Now, the rare 2,000-year-old headpiece (made for a Roman soldier stationed in the searing heat of Egypt) has been restored ...