For the first time since the boy king's tomb was discovered in 1922 all the items will stored in one place, a museum director ...

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A team of researchers at The University of New Mexico has uncovered how a peculiar, prehistoric plant might unlock new ways ...

It is clear that the sprawling city of Teotihuacan near Mexico City was a major metropolis of the ancient world, but what do ...

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A new study shows ancient Egyptians made bronze stronger with speiss, changing what experts knew about early metalworking ...

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

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Thousands of years and conspiracies have all led to this: the Great Pyramid of Giza may have been built using the basic ...

Two chunks of ocher unearthed at ancient rock shelters in Ukraine were actually Neanderthal crayons, according to a recent ...

The hotly anticipated new museum boasts some of the greatest treasures of antiquity. But there are some notable exceptions.

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