Scientist at the University of Aberdeen are using 3D imaging software to create interactive models of mummies and other ...

Another season of "Ghosts," another frightfully funny Halloween episode — only this time, the ghost of a mummy comes back from the dead to raise all sorts of Halloween havoc. We begin in Egypt in 1890 ...

When archaeologists unwrapped an Egyptian mummy, they weren’t expecting jewels, a curse, or a royal secret — they found pages from a lost book written in a language that didn’t even belong in Egypt.

You might not think a paleontologist looking for 66-million-year-old fossils would need to ask a rancher about his great-grandmother's job in the Wyoming badlands. But that's what Paul Sereno, a ...

Excerpted from Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations by Sam Kean. Copyright ...

An exhibition at Hamburg's MARKK Museum examines global representations of cats from ancient eras through today.

I’M standing open-mouthed on the edge of the desert, south-west of Cairo, the magnificent Great Pyramid of Giza directly in ...

Talamasca stars Nicholas Denton as a new recruit into an agency (called Talamasca) that monitors the activities of the ...

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 ...