A 4,500-year-old burial in Middle Egypt has reshaped what scientists know about ancient Egyptian origins. Inside a sealed ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

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

The culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of one of the most advanced urban civilizations at the time, contemporaries ...

New research suggests the Indus Valley Civilization was reshaped by centuries of river drought, migration, and climate stress ...

The discovery of the Snake Goddess made researchers focus on the mysterious religion of Minoan Crete and its connection of ...

A series of century-scale droughts may have quietly reshaped one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. New climate ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

The British Museum is well placed to refer to the discovery of the Library of Ashurbanipal as “one of the most important” ...

The Indus Valley Civilization, one of the world's oldest, was a thriving society in what is now Pakistan and northwest India for some 2,000 years. Then it was gone—without signs of war or conquest. A ...

A sculpture of the Pharaoh Akhenaten at the Shanghai Museum's groundbreaking exhibition On Top of the Pyramid. GAO ERQIANG/CHINA DAILY China and Egypt share common features in their ancient roots, ...