One of the most famous tombs in all of Egypt was holding a family secret: another body.

For the first time, researchers were able to see inside the mummies in the Chicago Field Museum's collections. Their findings ...

From maps and pickaxes, it is now possible to discover ancient relics from a distance, as in the case of a recent find.

Her elaborate burial and title indicate that she held a significant position in the ancient Egyptian court. She was laid to ...

Pottery has long been used to date archaeological sites but previously held ideas about styles associated with the iron age ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Twenty years after burying him, Egyptian architect Ahmed el-Meligui was forced to exhume his grandfather’s remains from a ...

Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the afterlife and helped solve a baffling mystery.

More than a decade ago, archaeologists began to excavate one of the world’s oldest Christian churches in the middle of a ...

Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in ...