A paleontologist was trying to locate the site of a famous 1908 discovery when a rancher in Wyoming shared an important clue.

In a remarkable intersection of modern urban development and ancient history, utility workers in Lima, Peru, unearthed a ...

New analysis shows how copper ions and microclimate combined to preserve a 12-year-old’s remains in vivid green for more than three centuries.

Now, groundbreaking research published in the Journal of Cultural Heritage has finally unraveled the chemical mystery behind this extraordinary preservation phenomenon. The teenage boy's remains, ...

Archeologists may have uncovered the oldest and "most complete" mummy ever found in Egypt during a recent excavation at a site in Saqqara, about 20 miles from Cairo. Dr. Zahi Hawass, the country's ...

Correction: This story has been updated to clarify the body was estimated to have been buried about 3,500 years ago. More than two millennia ago, an unnamed woman died under unknown circumstances.

LIMA, Peru (AP) - Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately 1,000 years old, barely half a ...

For most people, an extinct species is an abstraction, a set of bones they might have seen on display in a museum. For Gennady Boeskorov, they are things he has interacted with directly, studying ...

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A prominent Egyptologist has boldly claimed to have solved one of archaeology’s greatest mysteries: the location of Queen Nefertiti’s mummified remains. Zahi Hawass, the previous Minister of State for ...

As kids all over the country clamor to see the feature film The Mummy, Discovery Kids tells the real story with a morning of special programing all about mummies, the bandaged ones whose lives in ...

Leading Egyptologist Zahi Hawass claims to have found the location of Queen Nefertiti’s mummy. According to a report by Newsweek, the archaeologist links what he believes to be the ancient rulers ...