The discovery of an incredible 6th-century BC burial complex in Sirolo, central Italy has shed fresh light on the ...

Still sealed with ceramic lids, they contained organic material, pottery fragments, and animal bones.

Excavations 400 meters south of the Great Sphinx have uncovered Egypt's oldest worker city, complete with barracks for 2,000 men, copper workshops, and royal administrative buildings sealed with ...

Archaeologists working in the necropolis at Dra Abu el-Naga, on the west bank of modern Luxor, have recovered painted coffins ...

Although around 70% of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean water, only 28.7% of that (specifically the seabed) has been mapped. What awaits us in the hidden depths below? How about a thriving ...

Researchers diving 7 kilometres deep in a crewed submersible have discovered a vast collection of whale bones, including fossils up to 5 million years old and species new to science ...

It's the oldest, largest, and deepest graveyard of whale falls ever found—and it's been feeding life for millions of years.

Scientists have discovered a vast underwater “whale necropolis” in the southeastern Indian Ocean, revealing one of the largest known concentrations of whale-fall ecosystems and fossilised cetacean ...

Italy is putting on display one of the best known examples of Etruscan painting. The frescoes come from an ancient tomb that ...

It was a find of Biblical proportions. Archaeologists have unearthed a treasure trove of funerary artifacts in Egypt that ...

A new study details a whale necropolis stretching over 750 miles of seafloor in the southeastern Indian Ocean. Across 33 dives, a team of scientists discovered 476 whale fossils, five carcasses, and ...

CT scans and inscriptions reveal who was buried there—and how they lived.