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As the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah comes to a close, the discovery of an ancient tomb door with a stunning menorah carving is providing a fascinating glimpse into Israel’s rich...

This may not exactly be one for the connoisseurs, but archaeologists in Egypt say that they have found the oldest solid cheese. The ancient cheese, which is around 3,300 years...

Researchers will continue their search for secret chambers in King Tutankhamun’s tomb this year, harnessing sophisticated radar technology to find out if another burial is hidden at the famous site....

A new radar survey of King Tutankhamun’s tomb has reportedly found evidence of a hidden chamber that has revived talk about Queen Nefertiti’s final resting place. The survey of King...

A staggering 83 unusual ancient Egyptian graves have been discovered, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities. The graves surprised archaeologists because instead of the human remains lying in sarcophagi,...

MANILA, Philippines – Archaeologists have unearthed remnants of what they believe is a 1,000-year-old village on a jungle-covered mountaintop in the Philippines with limestone coffins of a type never before...

– Ancient stargazers used 6,000-year-old tombs to set calendar dates and watch the heavens thousands of years before Galileo Galilei. Astronomers are exploring what might be described as the first...

In 1909, the Arizona Gazette published an incredible story that until this day, fuels a number of conspiracy theories. According to the article, a man called G.E. Kincaid of Lewiston,...

On February 16, 1923, Howard Carter (1873 – 1939), an English archaeologist and Egyptologist unsealed and opened the burial chamber of the 14th century pharaoh King Tutankhamun in the tomb...

The Ming Tombs (“Ming Thirteen Mausoleums”) are a collection of imperial tombs of the Ming Dynasty scattered over an area of forty square kilometers in Changping District to the northwest...