A biomedical Egyptologist from The University of Manchester has fulfilled the mission of an illustrious Manchester anatomist from 1910, having by chance found his unique anatomical record of how ancient Nubians lived—and died—in Southern Egypt.

Anthropologists suggest forts were built to secure key trade routes through the region.

Human and animal sculptures that could date to 9,600 B.C.E were found in Turkey at sites some believe have ties to biblical accounts.

The two brooches are the first definitive evidence of Viking presence on the island of Jomfruland in southern Norway.

Archeologists in Reims, northeastern France, have found an unopened Roman sarcophagus with the remains of a woman and her funerary goods.

Vesuvius Challenge $700,000 Grand Prize “now definitely achievable”

While investigating a site at the southern edge of the Nefud desert in Saudia Arabia, archaeologists discovered remarkable ancient life-sized engravings of extinct camel species.

The discovery shows the popularity of the ancient ruler hundreds of years after his death.

Archaeologists in Norway unearthed dozens of tiny gold-foil figures at a former pagan temple.

While installing new gas lines in Peru, workers unearthed nearly a dozen pre-Inca mummies buried alongside a variety of artifacts.

Interpersonal violence was a consistent part of life in ancient hunter-gatherer communities on the Atacama Desert coast of northern Chile, according to a new study.

Sahure, also known as Sahura, was the second ruler of ancient Egypt’s Fifth Dynasty (c. 2465 - c. 2325 BCE).

While searching for a missing gold ring with a metal detector, the family in Norway found, to their big surprise, something entirely different in their garden on the island of Jomfruland.

Scientists have discovered and analyzed the first direct evidence of basketry among hunter-gatherer societies and early farmers in southern Europe.

Archaeologists from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Institute of Archaeology recently carried out preliminary excavation at the ancient site of Hyrcania in the northern Judean Desert, coming at the heels of increased activity by antiquities looters.

An excavation in Turkey has brought to light an unknown Indo-European language. Professor Daniel Schwemer, an expert for the ancient Near East, is involved in investigating the discovery.