The four clay troughs were initially thought to have served as stands for gold-plated staffs. Now, a researcher has presented ...

Just steps from the center of Tikal, a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of modern-day Guatemala, a global team of researchers has unearthed a buried altar that could unlock the secrets of a ...

More than 100 years after the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, new interpretations of the ...

From the 1200s to the 1700s, the custom of Christian tattooing was prevalent in Europe among peasants, seafarers, soldiers and artisans as much as among nuns and monks. They were getting crosses, ...

In King Tut’s burial chamber, a rite known as the “Awakening of Osiris” may have been performed, according to evidence […] ...