Archaeologists have unearthed an astonishing tomb and four small shrines dating back to the Ramesside Period 3,000 years ago at an archaeological site in Egypt. The Dutch-Italian team working at…
Rare brain operations carried out 3,500 years ago on two elite – and perhaps even royal – brothers by Bronze Age surgeons have been revealed by archaeologists. The skulls of…
A 2,500-year-old tomb with ten mummified crocodiles unearthed near the Nile was probably a tribute to an ancient Egyptian fertility god, experts have revealed. Experts say the mummified reptiles were…
Experts have deciphered a 700-year-old bone buried in a tomb detailing the marriage alliance of two ancient Mexican kingdoms. The animal bone - carved with intricate pictograms - has baffled…
Graffiti drawn by a knight from the Middle Ages has been discovered more than 500 years later in King David's Tomb in Jerusalem. A charcoal scrawling shows the name of…
Astonished archaeologists have unearthed a Stone Age tomb under a school with the perfectly preserved skeleton of a middle-aged man. The ancient grave was first found by a mechanical digger…
An ancient burial tomb dating back to the era of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II has been unearthed by a digger at a building site. The cave was unsealed for the…
The secret tomb of an ancient Egyptian general who ran an army of foreign mercenaries has been unearthed by archaeologists. Egyptian military official Wahibre-mery-Neith was in charge of recruiting soldiers…
Boffins say these well-preserved trousers, believed to be the world's oldest, are so stylish they were like the "Versace" of the ancient world. This is after they managed to recreate…
Swiss experts have found evidence that no sooner had the world's first superpower developed weapons in the form of an ultra-light, easy to wear armour, than a version of it…