Nine steps down a stone staircase in Egypt’s Aga Khan Mausoleum, archaeologists discovered a host of hieroglyphic ...

A fairytale-like castle, a sunken port city in the Caribbean, and mysterious cave paintings: Which of these places will be ...

Exploring Grand Palaces, seeing Egyptian mummies and gazing at the Holy Shroud are some of the things to do in Turin. This ...

In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy king’s relatives among mummies thought to belong to the royal family ...

From the pyramids of Egypt to the jungle-choked ruins of Angkor Wat, from the magical desert capital of the Nabateans in ...

In Ancient Egypt, 1,500 years before Christ, cats were not only companions but afforded almost godly status. In a more ...

In Cairo’s City of the Dead, where homes are mausoleums and communities have grown among the graves, residents speak out ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

Researchers have sequenced the genome of an ancient Egyptian who was buried in a pot nearly 5,000 years ago, about the time ...

Even in their natural state, some asperigimycins killed leukemia cells in lab tests. But the researchers went further. By ...

In a groundbreaking scientific discovery, an international research team has successfully sequenced the first whole ancient ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...