Heneghan Peng beat stiff competition to design Cairo’s Grand Egyptian Museum partly by luck, they say, but mostly by ‘looking’ ...

A paleontologist was trying to locate the site of a famous 1908 discovery when a rancher in Wyoming shared an important clue.

Egypt on Saturday is inaugurating the Grand Egyptian Museum, aiming to boost tourism and revitalize the economy ...

Shawnee, Oklahoma sits just 35 miles east of Oklahoma City, yet somehow maintains the charm of a place that time politely decided to treat with respect rather than bulldoze into generic strip-mall ...

The Museum of Idaho is excited to announce a generous $50,000 donation from Oklo, an advanced nuclear technology company ...

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: ...

Researchers reveal that a 66-million-year-old “dinosaur mummy” wasn’t preserved skin but a thin clay film that perfectly ...

Researchers have established that Northern Ireland’s most famous Egyptian mummy was murdered. The mummy, which is the cadaver of a woman called Takabuti who lived 2,600 years ago, is now known to have ...

Archaeologists and hospital staff in England have been working together. They’ve CT scanned an ancient Egyptian mummy’s head that was discovered in an English attic. In the 1820s a 2,700-year-old ...

Housed at Derby Museums since the 19th century, the mummy is now the focus of a meticulous conservation effort that highlights both archaeological significance and a complex colonial past. The project ...

The cartonnage surrounding Pa-Sheri had also been badly damaged [BBC] A 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy has been taken to Lincoln for restoration work. During the 19th Century the mummified man, known ...