As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

Nine steps down a stone staircase in Egypt’s Aga Khan Mausoleum, archaeologists discovered a host of hieroglyphic ...

More than 4,000 years after the pyramids, Egypt’s leaders are pinning hopes on the Grand Egyptian Museum to revive national ...

In 1972, the Necropolis of Varna in Bulgaria unveiled the world's oldest processed gold, dating back to 4,600–4,200 BC. The ...

Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the teeth of a remarkably well-preserved skeleton found in a sealed funeral pot in ...

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

Penn engineering researchers modified a fungus called Aspergillus flavus, which may have caused lung disease and illness in archeologists who discovered King Tut’s tomb.

Archaeologists in Greece have uncovered a 2,000-year-old tomb near Corinth containing a gold Apollo ring with a healing ...

In the ancient city of Gordion in Turkey, archaeologists have unearthed an 8th-century B.C.E. tomb with possible ties to King ...

Boasting King Tut's treasures and countless other riches, anticipation for the Grand Egyptian Museum mounts as delays thwart ...

The incredible number of shiny shell beads found in the Montelirio tomb reveal an ancient economy able to support large-scale ...