Japanese team discovers 3,500-year-old mummy in Egypt
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A Japanese research team has found "a perfect mummy" in an unrobbed Egyptian tomb believed to be more than 3,500 years old, the team's leader said.
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Scientists have discovered a tiny species of ancient human that lived 18,000 years ago on an isolated island east of the Java Sea - a prehistoric hunter in a &quot;lost world&quot; of giant lizards and miniature elephants.
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Washington - The face of a man who died and was mummified in Egypt 3 000 years ago has been modelled, using special CAT scans and without unwrapping his bandages, Italian researchers said on Wednesday.
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France is to hand over to Egypt a lock of hair said to belong to the mummy of Ramses II that was put on sale on the Internet last year, French officials said Monday.
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Archaeologists in the United Arab Emirates have found the remains of a 7,500-year-old man, the oldest skeleton found in the country, the official WAM news agency reported Monday.
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A mud brick tomb dating back more than 4,000 years has been discovered near Egypt's most ancient pyramid in the Saqqara complex south of Cairo, antiquities official announced Monday.
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The centuries-old search for the mummy of Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt&#39;s most famous female pharaoh, may finally have ended.
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Paleontologists working in Ethiopia have discovered the remains of at least nine primitive human ancestors that are up to 4.5 million years old.
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Athens, Greece - Archaeologists have discovered ancient graves during excavations near Ancient Olympia, the hallowed site where the Olympic Games were born in 776 BC, the Culture Ministry said on Thursday.
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Archaeologists hailed one of the most important finds in Egyptian history on Wednesday after a tooth identified the 3,500-year-old mummy of Queen Hatshepsut, the most powerful female pharaoh.
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The 1.77-million-year-old remains of three adults and a teenager unearthed in the Caucasus point to a far greater variation in early humans than once suspected, according to a study released Wednesday.
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Egypt&#39;s antiquities chief on Thursday revealed a 2,500-year-old hidden tomb under the shadow of one of Giza&#39;s three giant pyramids, containing 400 pinkie-finger-sized statues and six coffin-sized niches carved into granite rock.
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Egypt plans to X-ray the mummy of Tutankhamun to find out what killed the king who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago and died while only a teenager.
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Egypt plans to run tests on the mummy of Tutankhamun to find out what killed the king who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago and died while only a teenager.
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Archeologists discovered the mummified remains of a doctor they believe lived more than 4,000 years ago and who was buried along with metal surgical tools.
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A single tooth and some DNA clues appear to have âpositively identifiedâ the mummy of Hatshepsut, a great queen of ancient Egypt, who reigned in the 15th century B.C.
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A 3.3-million-year-old fossil toddler&#151;the world's oldest known child&#151;has been discovered almost completely intact in Ethiopia. Experts say the find will provide fascinating new clues about our early ancestors.