"Never in my 50 years in archaeology have I experienced something on such a grand scale as this," said Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass Discovery Channel viewers on Sunday got to go back 2,500 years in ...

Experts in Australia have found the tattered remains of an ancient priestess in a 2,500-year-old Egyptian coffin that was long thought to be empty. Reuters reports that the coffin, which was acquired ...

Every time archaeologists discover an ancient mummy, excitement soon follows. Mummies, of course, are often so well preserved that they capture the essence of who ancient peoples were when they were ...

Correction: This story has been updated to clarify the body was estimated to have been buried about 3,500 years ago. More than two millennia ago, an unnamed woman died under unknown circumstances.

The ancient Egyptian priest, Hor-Djehuty, was important enough to earn himself a spiffy sarcophagus for his corpse. The only problem for the ancient priest, however, was that he was not the corpse who ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) - Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately 1,000 years old, barely half a ...

Every time archaeologists discover an ancient mummy, excitement soon follows. Mummies, of course, are often so well preserved that they capture the essence of who ancient peoples were when they were ...