A chopping wound above the eye and more carnage solve a mystery that stumped archeologists for a century.

The ancient Egyptians practiced human sacrifice around 5,000 years ago, a new study finds.

The ancient Egyptians practiced human sacrifice around 5,000 years ago, a period shortly after the country was first unified, a new study finds. In the new study, Roselyn Campbell ...

A study of a pre-Hispanic molar with a jadeite inlay concludes it was treated while its owner was still alive. The find is the first documented case of such an inlay in a Mayan back molar. View on eur ...

The black-and-white photograph of a long-lost artifact depicts four serekhs, symbols of Egyptian rulers, and two of them, a ...

A new archaeological discovery suggests that people in present-day Georgia have feasted with cacao for 1,000 years ...

It’s one of the biggest hoards of its kind ever found in Germany, worth roughly six years of a Roman soldier’s savings.

If you've ever lost some pocket change, it's possible it could one day resurface as part of an archaeological study.

Study of remains taken from royal cemetery at Umm el-Qa’ab appears to confirm early Egyptologist’s theory ...

A particular pitch-dark zone of sea floor is home to more than a trillion nodules, potato-sized lumps that have built up ...

Earth and Mars could share a common ancestor, scientists have suggested, as a new rover prepares to scour the Red Planet for ...

Skulls of servants buried beside Egypt's first kings show breaks from around the time of death, a sign many of them may have been killed.