Country hopes find will boost tourism industry, which has been suffering since 2011 uprising Egypt has announced the discovery of two small tombs in the southern…
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‘Iconic’ finding of 3.8m-year-old fossil in Ethiopia casts doubt on previous evolutionary theory The face of the oldest species that unambiguously sits on the human…
Why did the bust of a queen carved more than 3,000 years ago achieve such fame when it was exhibited in 1924? Even with her…
Scientists say iceman ate ‘horrible-tasting’ high-fat meal of ibex before his murder 5,300 years ago Ötzi the iceman filled his belly with fat before he…
‘Wherever you dig, there’s another one,’ top scientist says The remains of 227 children, sacrificed in an “uncontrollable” wave of killings designed to appease ancient…
Researchers believe the 140 children were sacrificed 550 years ago by the Chimú civilisation as floods ravaged the coastline Archaeologists in northern Peru say they have found…
Cracked shells released overpowering ‘potent stench’ [slide-anything id=’2811′] Archaeologists accidentally broke three Roman eggs that had been going off for 1,700 years. The excavators unearthed a…
Her body was buried sitting upright on a bed of deer antlers. A hunter-gatherer woman who lived in what is now Sweden 7,000 years ago…
Ancient Egyptians have long been depicted wearing so-called head cones, but until now, archaeologists had no physical evidence of their existence. Now, two such head…
Nan Madol, an ancient administrative and the former capital of the Micronesian island of Pohnpei, was the earliest among the Pacific islands to be ruled…