Egyptologists have discovered a 4,300-year-old mummy inside of a Pharaonic tomb, according to Zahi Hawass, the director of an excavation team working at Saqqara, 12 miles south of Cairo.

It's the second recently-discovered hidden passageway in Khufu's pyramid, with an even longer 98-feet-long corridor being ...

the oldest example of tattooing in general come courtesy of the mummy known as Ötzi who was discovered in Europe back in 1991. Ötzi’s tattoos, unlike those found on the young Egyptians ...

Leicester is one of the most excavated cities in Britain, as it was originally the site of a Roman town named Ratae ...

Scandinavian scientists said Wednesday that they have identified the oldest-known inscription referencing ... second half of the 6th century. The disc discovered in Denmark was part of a trove ...

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The find proves that Odin, the Norse god of war and death who ruled over Valhalla, was worshipped by Norse and Germanic ...

A group of archeologists in the United Arab Emirates said Monday that they've found what they believe to be the oldest pearling ... Christian monastery that was discovered just last year, Power ...

The world's oldest gnat, dating back 247 million years, has been discovered in Mallorca, Spain. The beautifully preserved larva fossil, just a few million years after the planet's largest ...

A team of Scandinavia-based scientists discovered a fossilized Ichthyosaur, a prehistoric aquatic reptile, in a rock that is dated to just after the end-Permian mass extinction (EPME). The study ...