After initially probing a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus in Naples with a micro camera, archaeologists were encouraged enough by ...

Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...

Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves thinks there are multiple hidden chambers inside King Tut's tomb that could contain the long ...

Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ...

Digging a drainage system is rarely an exciting process. But ‘rarely’ doesn’t mean ‘never,’ as was recently proven in ...

A trove of more than 160 treasures from the tomb of King Tutankhamun has been transferred from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum King Tut galleries prepares for their grand opening, with the arrival of his ceremonial chair.

First lady Melania Trump and members of the Bush family gathered Thursday to unveil a U.S postage stamp bearing the portrait ...

Items from a collection of women’s clothes from the 1920s, along with a touch of Hollywood glamour, are on display at Killerton ...

From opalescent pearls to dainty gold chains, these objects have been rendered by the Canadian painter with her signature playful, precise illusionism. Key to the trompe l’oeil effect is Weyant ...

This was the actual tomb. To enter the tomb, one had to crawl through a very narrow hole through the front of the roofed chamber. Inside was a gold coffin in which Cyrus’ body had been placed. There ...

Pope Francis’s coffin is carried out of Saint Peter's Basilica into Saint Peter's Square where the ceremony will begin. The ceremony will take place primarily within the Vatican, before Pope ...