Study shows mummification process left preserved remains smelling sweet and woody In a nutshell Ancient Egyptian mummies emit ...

Towering bronzes depicting emperors once graced an ancient shrine in a region of what is now Turkey that was once part of ...

The tiny cuts and grooves that decorate some ancient human artifacts are not just pretty accidents, according to some ...

The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...

For the first time, visitors will see ancient artifacts from the Griffin Warrior Tomb, during an exhibition in Greece ...

In Autun, France, archaeologists discovered a 1,600-year-old fabric woven with gold threads in an ancient burial site. The fabric, once a symbol of elite aristocracy, was found in a lead coffin, along ...

History is full of surprises, and some discoveries challenge everything we thought we knew about ancient civilizations. The ...

The University of Richmond recently held a repatriation ceremony to return a collection of ancient pre-Hispanic artifacts to ...

During a panel discussion at the Jaipur Literature Festival, one speaker said Western curators must do more to set exhibits ...

The area we call West Virginia has a long and ancient Native American history. Long before the Shawnee, Mingo and Wyandot tribes roamed the mountains and river ...

A development project in a city of northern Italy quickly morphed into a large-scale archaeological dig when the first traces ...

After detailed scans of the find and a yearslong preservation process, experts identified the material as a 1,600-year-old purple fabric woven with gold threads. Its purple dye, now faded to a red ...