Archaeologists from the University of Houston have discovered the first royal tomb at the sprawling Maya site of Caracol, in ...

Ancient markings, sealed away for millennia, have just been uncovered in one of Egypt’s most iconic structures. These new ...

The Rosetta Stone is a black granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree by King Ptolemy V Epiphanes. The decree, written in  54 lines of Greek, 32 lines of ...

Egypt is celebrating a new wave of remarkable discoveries that reinforce its status as a global centre of archaeological ...

Nefertari was the beloved wife of Rameses II, and her extravagant tomb proves it. Its restored paintings tell an interesting ...

The Mayan city of Caracol has been researched for decades, but archaeologists only recently found a tomb of one of the city's ...

Who built the Great Pyramid of Giza? Were slaves employed to construct the mammoth, mysterious structure? Scientists have ...

Ancient stone walls and power: What data science tools can reveal in African archaeology by Mncedisi Siteleki, The Conversation Editors' notes ...

From the Magazine of the Archaeological Institute of America comes the jaw-dropping chronicle of an Egyptian temple, once covered in dirt and soot, that’s now revealing an ancient creation myth ...

Rediscovered some 200 years ago, the ancient Egyptian temple of Esna has held 2,000-year-old secrets in its walls that are just now seeing the light of day. Thanks to an ambitious restoration project ...

The knowledge of writing is not very old compared to human history. It was only invented 5,000 years ago. It is one of the ...