Crown Suggests Queen Arsinoë II Ruled Ancient Egypt as Female Pharaoh

ScienceDaily — A unique queen's crown with ancient symbols combined with a new method of studying status in Egyptian reliefs forms the...

Staggering Picasso trove turns up in France

By JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press Jamey Keaten, Associated Press PARIS – A retired ...

More Proof That Vikings Were First to America

By Lisa Bend Pity poor Leif Ericsson. The Viking explorer may well have been the first European to reach the Americas, but it is a certain...

Ancient Lambayeque civilizations domesticated cats 3500 years ago

Recent finds at the Ventarrón archaeological site have revealed some of the oldest examples of ancient Peruvian domestication of animals. ...

2,000-year-old intact female skeleton with gray hair unearthed in Hubei

A 2,000-year-old intact skeleton of an elderly woman was unearthed from a tomb from the early Western Han dynasty at the construction site...

London's National Portrait Gallery Finds Relics of English King Richard II in Its Basement

LONDON.- An archivist at the National Portrait Gallery has found relics from the tomb of King Richard II while cataloguing the papers of ...

Ancient Egyptian temple submerged in sewage

An ancient Egyptian temple to the god Ptah in the village of Meet Rahina near Memphis, just south of Cairo, now sits submerged in sewage. ...

Boy, 3, uncovers $4M gold medieval relic

Forget the tricycle — your kid needs a metal detector. James Hyatt, then 3, fo...

Ancient Roman soldiers' bathhouse found in Jerusalem

By Shira Medding Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israeli archaeologists have discovered an ancient Roman bathhouse that was probably used by the soldie...

Burnt City woman's face reconstructed

Rome's National Museum of Oriental Art has displayed the reconstructed face of a female skeleton which was found in Iran's Burnt C...

Dozer Driver Makes Fossil Discovery of the Century

by Loren Grush An accidental discovery by a bulldozer driver has led to what may be the find of the century: an ice-age burial ground that...