In Egypt, Cleopatra—a universal symbol of ancient royalty—continues to captivate through her legacy and the mysteries ...

From a mosaic of flip-flops in Sicily to Cicero's possible sauna, new discoveries prove that bathing has always been about more than getting clean.

Last spring, a keen-eyed customer at the Thrifty Boutique in Chilliwack spotted jewelry that appeared to date to Roman times.

Egypt has installed for the first time a state-of-the-art air purification system inside the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the last surviving wonder of the ancient world, to safeguard its fragile chambers ...

Doomed Egyptian queen Cleopatra has captured the imaginations of people all over the world for centuries. Archaeologists have ...

In 2008, archaeologists working at a desert settlement in central Egypt uncovered a small, hollowed-out cow bone no more than ...

It may be Rachel Weinz and Brendan Fraser's fault, but whenever we think of mummies, we can't help but imagine Egypt. This ...

A major discovery of a 40-foot-deep underwater port near Alexandria could bring archaeologists closer to finding Cleopatra's elusive tomb.

While it was thought that mummification first occurred in Egypt or Chile, a new study reveals that hunter-gatherers in Asia were already mummifying their dead 12,000 years ago.

On the evening of September 20, the opening ceremony of the Second Chu Culture Festival was held in Jingzhou, China. The event was guided by the China Public Diplomacy Association, the China ...

The meteorite landed, probably with more of a thud than a boom, in a river valley where camels now forage near the village of ...

Archaeologist Kathleen Martínez has spent more than 20 years of her career attempting to track down Cleopatra's final resting ...