This ancient people lived in the Sahara when it was a much more welcoming environment.

Each mummy was scanned in its sarcophagus, which weighs about 200 pounds. Then 3D models of the two Egyptian priests were constructed — and you can see them at the California Science Center.

The remarkable Roman Egypt-era work represents some the earliest realistic portrait paintings still in existence today.

New genetic findings from 7,000-year-old mummies in Libya are rewriting ancient history. These individuals belong to a unique North African ancestry, previously unknown to scientists. This discovery ...

AS Hannah Stinson held Brett Harman’s hand from his hospital bedside, she reassured him that everything was going to be okay.

A new bioarchaeological study has identified what researchers describe as the first known case of deliberate mummification applied to a child sacrificed during the Inca capacocha ritual. The finding ...

He is the son of a plantation owner and his Sydney North Shore heiress wife who dreamed of musical theatre stardom but is now ...

Harley Harris, 15, is just one of 25 people in the world to be diagnosed with spondylocarpotarsal synostosis, a skeletal ...

Lim Huimin sings pop songs in bars, has led choirs to gold medals and conducted the National Day Parade school choir. When ...

The past has a remarkable habit of refusing to stay in the shadows. Every year, surprise findings and archaeological ...

Researchers at the University of Southern California recently used high-resolution CT scanners and medical-grade 3-D printers to conduct virtual autopsies on the two Egyptian mummies. Their goal, as ...

Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 ...