News from Cairo – ARCE Director Dr. Gerry Scott talks about the crisis and Egypt’s Antiquities

This morning Dr. Gerry Scott, director of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), gave a telephone interview from Cairo itself. Read...

Looters destroy mummies in Egyptian Museum

Cairo - Looters broke into the Egyptian Museum during anti-government protests late on Friday and destroyed two Pharaonic mummies, Egypt...

Research uses space-age technology on 16th-century history

by Chris Arnot Cutting-edge space science technology of the sort used to analyse moon rock is being applied to fragments of 16th-century t...

Lincoln Pardon Altered to Change History: Big Pic

Talk about revisionist history. Thomas Lowry, a long-time Lincoln researcher from Woodbridge, Va., has confessed to altering the date on a...

Bog bodies baffle scientists

By Dan Vergano , USA TODAY Scholars have long tried to make sense out of one of the oddities of the archaeological world —bodies pulled fro...

Caligula's tomb found after police arrest man trying to smuggle statue

by Tom Kington The lost tomb of Caligula has been found, according to Italian police, after the arrest of a man trying to smuggle abroad a ...

Tutankhamen's Tomb To Be Closed To Visitors

Time is running out to visit the tomb of Tutankhamen, as officials with Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities have announced plans to ...

Scientists trying to clone, resurrect extinct mammoth

Instead of Jurassic Park, try Pleistocene Park. A team of scientists from Japan, Russia and the United States hopes to clone a mammoth, a s...

Blackbeard's Sword, Found! Archaeologists Discover Pirate Treasure Off North Carolina Coast

It's likely Edward Teach didn't need much to scare his enemies. After all, the notorious pirate better known as Blackbeard boasted ...

Neanderthals and early modern humans had same lifespan

A new study by a Washington University in St. Louis suggests life expectancy was probably the same for early modern and late archaic huma...

Did Famine Destroy ‘Camelot’?

South Cadbury Castle is well known for its suspected association with King Arthur as the site of his infamous castle, Camelot. Excavations ...

Dinosaur Graveyard Reveals Oldest T. Rex Relative: Dawn Runner

By Charles Q Choi What may be the earliest known relative of T. rex and all meat-eating dinosaurs has been discovered. Read the rest here.

Scientists discover 'oldest' winery in Armenian cave

by Brian Walker (CNN) -- Forget France. It turns out, the real birthplace of wine may be in a cave in Armenia. An international research t...