Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the afterlife and helped solve a baffling mystery.

The 3,800-year-old site near the city of Luxor holds the remains of 11 individuals, who may have been members of the same ...

An ancient Norwegian saga recounts a man thrown into a well during a castle siege, potentially as an early act of biological ...

The down found in the ship could have filled at least 31 duvets. An archaeology professor has a theory about what it might ...

The world's most popular natural history museum is dedicated to understanding the natural world and our place in it. Delve into the fascinating story of our planet, from its fiery beginnings through ...

Join Art Lunch at Stavanger Art Museum for short lectures on exhibitions. Helga Nyman will discuss The Plastic Body. Free for members, café available. Welcome to our monthly event Art Lunch, where our ...

University of Stavanger archaeologist and historian Roderick Dale, a specialist in Old Norse literature who wasn't involved in the new study, agreed that the analysis seemed to corroborate the ...

A tourist visits the Istanbul Archaeology Museum in Istanbul, Türkiye, Oct. 17, 2024. The Istanbul Archaeological Museum in Türkiye was established in the 19th century and is one of the world's ...

Archaeological excavation at Hasankeyf over ... been relocated to the Archeopark area to preserve them in an open-air museum. According to Erdal, however, only the lower part of ancient Hasankeyf ...

In addition to being a true archaeological marvel, the ornate facade of Jordan’s ancient city of Petra has served as a backdrop in a number of movies, including “Indiana Jones and the Last ...

Five years ago, then-IU president Michael McRobbie announced plans to merge the Mathers Museum of World Cultures and Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology into a single entity. Now called the ...