As researchers discover overlooked tattoos on mummies from around the world, it's prompting new insights about some of the ...

When archaeologists unwrapped an Egyptian mummy, they weren’t expecting jewels, a curse, or a royal secret — they found pages ...

Thousands of visitors streamed through the Grand Egyptian Museum on Tuesday as almost the entire collection of King Tutankhamun's treasures -- over 4,500 artefacts -- was displayed together for the ...

While excavating in the Valley of the Kings, an Egyptian worker on an archaeological dig discovered a partially obscured step ...

When Howard Carter uncovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, the world believed it had witnessed the greatest archaeological ...

New research has identified a dinosaur "mummy zone" in a series of ravines near Lusk, Wyoming. It's produced two mummies of a fleshy dinosaur with ...

Many of them — including a duck-billed dinosaur mummy discovered in 1908 — hail from an area in eastern Wyoming. In the new study, scientists returned to this so-called mummy zone and found new ...

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

The Museum of Idaho is excited to announce a generous $50,000 donation from Oklo, an advanced nuclear technology company ...

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

That’s the standard experience awaiting visitors at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina – a kaleidoscopic shrine to all things peculiar and perplexing.

Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: ...