When the beard fell off the boy pharaoh's funerary mask in August 2014 at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, employees tried to reattach it with glue. When the botched restoration was noticed it made ...

Exhibit in the US city of Baltimore shows how mercury, arsenic, lead and orpiment were used to illustrate and bind books ...

Along with all of the other weirdness in the Pokémon world, there are humans with psionic abilities, although not quite to the same level as the Psychic-type Pokémon. Sabrina was the first prominent ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered the 1,700-year-old tomb of the earliest known ruler of the ancient Maya city of Caracol. The ...

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

Several important and beautiful discoveries of Mycenaean gold objects have been made by archaeologists, particularly in royal ...

The unearthing of the tomb of ancient Egyptian King Thutmose II is being described as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in recent years.

Mummification Ancient Egyptians believed that preserving the body in good condition after death was essential for the deceased’s smooth transition and activity in the afterlife. The early practice of ...

On the coast of the Cyrenaica region in present-day Libya lies the ancient city of Ptolemais, founded by the Egyptian pharaohs of the Ptolemaic dynasty in the 4th or 3rd century BCE. This city thrived ...

Black Death DNA Found In 3,300-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy The plague was killing people long before the Black Death pandemic.