Archaeologists in Turkey uncover a 2,800-year-old royal tomb with a funeral feast, clues to Phrygian power, and links to King ...

A crown was left with the deceased, but its position indicated her reign may not have ended the way she would have liked.

The Royal Tombs of Ur, discovered in the 1920s, contained some of the most elaborate burials in the ancient world. But who ...

Officials responsible for the burial grounds of Buganda's former kings have been urged to strengthen protection of these sacred sites and the land surrounding them.

The opening of a richly furnished ancient grave in Greece has turned a routine excavation into a gripping reconstruction of ...

The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

Long before Cleopatra and Hatshepsut, Ankhnespepy II amassed unprecedented political and religious power. Here's how.

Archaeologists also discovered the burial of a four-year-old child in close proximity to the woman. The child was crowned with a bronze diadem adorned with small rosettes and dates to the same time ...

China's use of rammed earth to make loess platforms with wooden structures on top, evolved from the Loess Plateau and ...

This feature traces the afterlife of Tipu Sultan beyond the battlefield — from the grandeur of the Jamboo Savari and his ...