The enormous stone structure, complete with angular steps and flat terraces, looks uncannily like the ruins of a man-made temple — despite being over 10,000 years old.

An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, has been discovered in Tikal National ...

For more than a century, Egyptologists have debated King Tut's cause of death. But a DNA analysis has brought them closer to ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously unknown ancestry. DNA analysis of the mummies, which are the remains of ...

Since the late 1800s, women have studied Ancient Egypt, but it wasn't always easy to enter the profession. Here are 8 trailblazers who led the way.