China finds secret tomb chamber
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A mysterious chamber is found inside the Chinese imperial tomb guarded by the famous Terracotta Army.
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ZHONGDONG, China  - For Wang Fengguan, a man's cave is his castle.
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Archaeologists have recovered more than 1,000 artifacts at sites being prepared for the 2008 Olympics, but elsewhere in China, they are often in a losing race against bulldozers.
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Archaeologists working near Stonehenge in England have discovered what appears to be an ancient religious complex containing a treasure trove of artifacts that might finally illuminate the lives and religious ...Comment
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Fossil remains of the oldest and smallest known ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex, the world&#39;s favorite ferocious dinosaur, have been discovered in China with evidence that its body was cloaked in downy &quot;protofeathers.
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Researchers have solved the mystery of the boy in the iron coffin.
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China offered a rare glimpse of its manned space flight center Wednesday, drawing back -- if only slightly -- the veil of secrecy around China's ambitions in outer space.
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China offered a rare glimpse of its manned space flight center Wednesday, drawing back -- if only slightly -- the veil of secrecy around China&#39;s ambitions in outer space.
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Archaeologists excavating a sprawling prehistoric fortress in southern Greece have discovered a secret underground passage thought to have supplied the site with water in times of danger.
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A Bulgarian archaeologist has unearthed a 2,400-year-old golden mask in the tomb of an ancient Thracian king - a find he says is unrivalled in the study of classical antiquity.
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CAIRO -- Egyptologists think they have identified with certainty the mummy of Hatshepsut, the most famous queen to rule ancient Egypt, found in a humble tomb in the Valley of the Kings, an archeologist said yesterday.
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French scientists and historians are trying to unravel the secrets behind a cache of documents hidden nearly two centuries ago inside one of Paris's best-known equestrian statues.
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A mass grave containing hundreds of bodies has been discovered in an underground prison north of the Afghan capital, the BBC reported early Friday.
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The fossilised remains of a giant bird-like dinosaur have been uncovered in the region of Inner Mongolia, China.
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The mystery baffled archaeologists for more than two decades. What happened to 22,000 pieces of gold &#151; jewel-encrusted crowns, daggers and baubles from an ancient burial mound &#151; that had apparently vanished from Afghanistan in the 1980s?
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Experts in Nepal study a site thought to contain the buried or cremated remains of up to 49 people.
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Bulgarian Archaeologists said Monday they finally unearthed the largest so far tomb from the civilisation of the Thracians, tribes that populated the Balkans since the Bronze Age till the early Middle Ages.