The power of Ramses III spread over key routes and was marked by rock inscriptions in his name—one has been found in Wadi Rum ...

Authorities on the Greek island of Crete have arrested six people allegedly involved in an antiquities smuggling operation.

According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to see who would be ruler of Egypt. During the fight, Seth mut ...

Archaeologists uncovered ancient offerings in a sealed cave in Mexico, revealing secrets of the lost Tlacotepehua ...

Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered ancient Mayan pottery in a cave system a little more than 10 miles away from downtown Playa de Carmen.

For the price of 5 pesos (US $0.25), a trip on Mexico City's metro can be a surreal, art-filled experience if you venture to ...

A trove of buried treasure that metal detectorists recently discovered in Transylvania once belonged to an ancient people ...

Their research was based on, not DNA, but a series of techniques collectively called ancient protein analysis, or paleoproteomics. This process involves extracting proteins from the bone and tooth ...

The artifacts were described as an ancient weapon kit that appeared to be in mint condition. While some of the findings were broken, there were others that were perfectly preserved for thousands of ...

An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture, demonstrating the ...

In a significant step toward cultural repatriation, 76 Greek Jewish artifacts are set to return to the Jewish Museum of Greece in Athens, following a landmark agreement announced during a working ...