The smell of freshly baked bread wafted through Egypt’s western desert more than 3,500 years ago, according to new findings at the El-Kharga Oasis announced on Wednesday. During excavation work for the Theban Desert Road Survey, a project to map ...
Several pieces of the world's oldest and largest unsolved jigsaw puzzle, a 2,200-year-old map of Rome made of thousands of marble fragments, could be unearthed next year following construction work for a new metro line near Rome's majestic forum area. ...
On July 12 the remains of an 18th-century ship were found buried 20 feet below street level at the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. The question is -- how did they get there? Nobody knows ...
Two doors that lead into mysterious shafts deep inside the Great Pyramid have been shut for 4,500 years.
The largest species of rat ever discovered was about 50 percent larger than the common black rat.
A chariot that may have witnessed King Tutankhamun’s final moments is traveling outside Egypt for the first time in three millennia to join the "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" exhibit at the Discovery Times Square Exposition, Egypt's ...
A team of Canadian archaeologists is leading an expedition to find two British vessels that shipwrecked in the Canadian Arctic more than 150 years ago.
Researchers compare the gait and foot structure of modern humans to a collection of 1.5 million year old footprints discovered in Kenya.
Peruvian researchers believe the remains date back more than 1,200 years.
Proton analysis shows the dead sea scrolls' chemistry matches that of the water in the area where the ancient document was found.
