Archaeology News

A chariot that may have witnessed King Tutankhamun’s final moments is traveling outside Egypt for the first time in three millennia to join the "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" exhibit at the Discovery Times Square Exposition, Egypt's ...

A team of Canadian archaeologists is leading an expedition to find two British vessels that shipwrecked in the Canadian Arctic more than 150 years ago.

A wooden version of the world-famous stone structure has been discovered by British archaeologists.

Researchers compare the gait and foot structure of modern humans to a collection of 1.5 million year old footprints discovered in Kenya.

Peruvian researchers believe the remains date back more than 1,200 years.

Proton analysis shows the dead sea scrolls' chemistry matches that of the water in the area where the ancient document was found.

Guatemala’s jungle-covered Peten region has offered up a Mayan royal tomb packed with a hoard of carvings, ceramics and children's bones.

A centuries-old ship was unearthed at the construction site for the new World Trade Center. Archaeologists suspect it may have been used to expand lower Manhattan.

Malaria, not murder, was responsible for the deaths of two members of the clan that dominated the Florentine Renaissance.

This tiny fragment is thought to be part of a letter addressed to Akhenaten, the “heretic” pharaoh who ruled Egypt during the 14th century B.C.

Egyptian archaeologists unveiled on Thursday two rock-hewn painted tombs belonging to a man who had a supervising role in the construction of pyramids -- and his son. It's considered among the most distinguished Old Kingdom tombs. Dating from around 4,300 ...

The discovery shows for the first time that our hardy forebears, armed with a few stone tools or weapons, could survive in a challenging, frigid environment.

Arm bone remains show that Neanderthals were unusually pumped up on male hormones, possibly due to an all-meat diet.

Archaeologist Craig Lee unearthed a 10,000-year-old ancient hunting weapon in a melting ice patch in the Rocky Mountains.

The ancient Romans slaughtered dozens of babies at a villa in England’s Thames Valley, a new study into the tiny remains has revealed. Located in Buckinghamshire, just northwest of London, Yewden Villa, as the site is known, was excavated in ...

Legends allege that the last queen of Egypt died from a snakebite. But a new study could rewrite history.

The 570-foot-long tunnel for Seti I was left unfinished and may have been designed to house a secret tomb.

Anthropologists have uncovered sequences of painted images that appear to be a Copper Age version of animation.

A clue to how the diminutive humanoid Homo floresiensis evolved can be found in its unique surroundings -- the fossils of Flores, and the island itself.

The new finding challenges past assertions that the famous pharaoh died of malaria.