Archaeologists have uncovered ancient Egyptian mummies with red and even blonde hair, sparking debate, curiosity, and controversy. Were these traits natural?

Archaeologists discovers 13 wooden coffins in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. Justice Sonia Sotomayor interrupted U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer during argument over birthright ...

Government forces retook the capital city from rebel troops in April. Now comes the task of rebuilding what was once a ...

In a new study, researchers used lasers to uncover highly intricate designs of ancient tattoos on mummies ... an archaeologist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The researchers examined around ...

Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...

Long Zhen, director of the Jinyang Ancient City Research Institute of ... The murals coat the entire tomb, save for the floor. The South China Morning Post wrote that the artwork is styled ...

After initially probing a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus in Naples with a micro camera, archaeologists were encouraged enough by ...

Researchers have revealed the mystery behind a well-preserved 18th-century mummy in Austria, highlighting a unique embalming ...

Scientists have unearthed the body of a 4,500-year-old woman in Peru. What’s surprising is that they found not just her bones ...

Dating back 5,200 to 5,800 years, the Lingjiatan site in Hanshan county, Ma'anshan, Anhui province, a late Neolithic ...

no less — that was chosen for the conveyance of one of China's greatest thinkers of ages past in Moscow recently. The man in question was the ancient philosopher Laozi, who lived about 2,500 ...