Last World War I veteran Frank W. Buckles dies at 110

By Paul Duggan Frank W. Buckles died early Sunday, sadly yet not unexpectedly at age 110, having achieved a singular feat of longevity tha...

Ice-age child's remains discovered in Interior

By CASEY GROVE Fairbanks researchers say they've uncovered the oldest cremated human remains ever discovered in northern North America...

Thousands of Tombs in Saudi Desert Spotted From Space

Little is known about the archaeology of Saudi Arabia, as the government has historically forbid aerial photographs of the landscape and...

Iceman Oetzi gets a new face for 20th anniversary

AFP: BOLZANO, Italy — Iceman Oetzi, whose mummified body was famously found frozen in the Italian Alps in 1991, will get a new face for the...

Cairo teen finds looted pharaonic statue

CAIRO — A Cairo teenager found a priceless statue of Pharaoh Akhenaton near a garbage bin after it had been stolen from the Egyptian Museu...

Earliest humans not so different from us, research suggests

That human evolution follows a progressive trajectory is one of the most deeply-entrenched assumptions about our species. This assumption i...

6,000-year-old axe head unearthed

A 6,000-year-old axe head and an Anglo-Scandinavian sword handle are among hundreds of archaeological treasures unearthed in Scotland since...

Exclusive: Roman Child's Footprints Found

Two thousand-year-old footprints left by a Roman...

King Tut statue among missing Egypt treasures, minister says

Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- At least 17 artifacts from the Egyptian Museum of Cairo are missing following a break-in, the country's minister...

Sunken ship of skipper who inspired 'Moby-Dick' found

(CNN) -- In an instance of truth being stranger than fiction, American author Herman Melville turned to a horrifying ordeal as inspiratio...

Secret of Voynich Manuscript, an Ancient Book Written in 'Alien' Code, Partly Revealed

Part of the mystery behind an 'alien' book no one can read has at last been unraveled. Found in a chest of books outside Rome by a ...

Mystery of the mummy's Chinese travel ban

By Clifford Coonan in Beijing For her advanced years, she looks remarkable. Despite neari...

Viking ancestry explored on the Isle of Man by researchers

Researching your family tree can only go back so far in time before records become patchy. Now genealogists from the University of Leicester...

Tomb of Prophet Zechariah Found?

Israeli archaeologists unveiled on Wednesday the remnants of a newly discovered Byzantine-era church they suspect is concealing the tomb o...