About 7,000 years ago, in the Sahara, two women were buried in a rock shelter in what is now southwestern Libya. At the time, ...

A newly discovered tomb in Abydos, Egypt, may belong to a forgotten king from the little-known Abydos Dynasty and is helping archaeologists uncover a missing part of ancient Egyptian history.

A severe dust storm hit Mumbai, causing reduced visibility and affecting traffic. The India Meteorological Department warned ...

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...

New Greek and Roman archaeological discoveries including a funerary building, portraits, mummies, and statues were made in Fayoum, Egypt.

Archaeologists discovered the tomb of an unknown pharaoh from a tumultuous, war-ridden era of ancient Egypt. Now they're ...

A mysterious Egyptian mummy, ‘Bashiri,’ was discovered in 1919 near Luxor, and no one had ever dared to open its contents for ...

Excavations at a necropolis outside of Liternum, near modern-day Naples, have found two ornate funerary enclosures.

The history of medicine is filled with remedies that, viewed through a modern lens, seem perplexing, misguided or downright ...

“It is likely that one of the multiple funerary rituals that was represented in Tutankhamun’s Burial Chamber is the Awakening ...

A mysterious mummy called “Bashiri” has captivated the minds of Egyptologists for more than a century, but no scholar has ever unearthed it. A mummy, known as the “Untouchable,” was ...

Initially, the find was believed to be a modern-day accident victim, but upon closer examination, researchers soon realised that the mummy belonged ... in the field of archaeology.