Advanced imaging revealed the first known mummified pregnant woman from ancient Egypt, with the fetus still inside her womb.

A routine patrol by Italian police has revealed the wreck of an ancient Roman cargo vessel, with multiple amphorae still preserved on the seabed.

More than 60 years ago, Bruce Runnegar was visiting Petrie’s Quarry in Brisbane with school friends when he discovered a ...

Up to 50 percent of species—which included 12 bird species and 4 frog species—on Aotearoa’s North Island went extinct before ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered signs of an ancient Martian shoreline, hinting at long-lasting lakes, subsurface water activity, and conditions that may once have supported life on the Red ...

Officers have issued an update on their investigation into the discovery of human remains in ancient woodland in Walsall as ...

"You need so much water that we think these could be evidence of an ancient warmer and wetter climate where there was rain falling for millions of years." ...

New evidence has emerged that sheds light on the possible first people to populate the Americas. Dating of stone and ivory ...

A 6th Century burial ground and two Iron Age roundhouses have been discovered during a Scottish Water sewer upgrade project ...

The carving of a boat, erased name of a pharoah, and two depictions of the Egyptian diety Min were also found nearby. Archaeologists have discovered 5,000-year-old rock carvings in Wadi Khamila, a dry ...

Scientists uncover a ‘lost world’ inside a New Zealand cave, revealing fossils of extinct birds and frogs from 1 million years ago. The discovery offers rare insight into ancient ecosystems.

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.