The location of the entrance to Egypt's 'floating' pyramid stumped archaeologists for years, but the nearby village is the ...

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 - ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

The highlights this week: Aid in Sudan is in jeopardy as the country faces worsening famine, Kenya’s high court suspends the country’s $2.5 billion health deal with the United States, and tensions ...

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

Egyptian authorities have pulled back the curtain on the repaired statues, described as 'one of the most important landmarks of the Egyptian civilization'.

Shabti, the ancient Egyptian funerary figurines that were supposed to work for the deceased in their afterlife, have revealed the identity of a pharaoh in an unnamed sarcophagus. Pharaoh Shoshenq III ...