A mummy long believed to belong to a male priest was revealed through medical imaging to be a pregnant woman with a fetus ...

Called simply “Mummies” and running in the museum’s top-floor temporary exhibition spaces until May next year, the exhibition ...

An archaeological team has uncovered for the first time more than half of the temple, long buried under River Nile sediment.

Two forgotten mummies were left in a flooded, unmarked tomb for centuries—but new forensic analysis reveals a shocking connection to King Tut. One mummy, a woman in her 40s, shows signs of royal ...

This December marks just over a century since one of the most breath-holding moments in archaeological history — the day in 1922 when Howard Carter first gazed into the long-sealed tomb of Tutankhamun ...

The Chinchorro people, who inhabited the coastal regions of what is now northern Chile and southern Peru beginning around 7000 BC, developed the earliest known artificial mummification techniques - ...

The biggest archaeological discoveries of 2025 reveal lost cities, royal tombs, and breakthroughs reshaping history.

Known as the Colossi of Memnon, the statues of Amenhotep III both stand at more than 40 feet tall. Experts have been working ...

The intact tomb of an Egyptian royal physician, Tetinebefou, is discovered. Its paintings are so vivid they look like recent work.

From restored Old Cairo to the newly expanded New Cairo, this Egyptian capital is undergoing a sweeping cultural and urban ...

When Howard Carter peered through a small opening in the Valley of the Kings in 1922, he wasn’t just looking at gold that had ...

Longest lightning, the first AI-generated genomes and biggest black hole smashup were among this year’s top science ...