That was the case recently when a remarkable discovery from the Copper Age was made during an otherwise routine dig for a new ...

Archaeologists have just uncovered the first known funeral home from ancient Egypt. The complex included a mummification ...

Was This Cave an Ancient Lab for Preserving Human Bodies? A series of remarkably well-preserved human remains in a remote cave in Scotland has archaeologists grappling with a staggering question ...

More than a thousand bog bodies and skeletons have come to light, and scientists now have the means to study the remains in such detail that they can, in a sense, resurrect these ancient people.

But North America has its peat bogs, too, and some of them contain the remarkably well-preserved remains of ancient people. One site in particular stands out as America's premier bog-body site ...

The team of researchers have made several trips to the isolated cave to study the ancient, gruesome traditions that once took ...

Many are familiar with the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD that destroyed Pompeii. But centuries earlier, Vesuvius also sent ...

Researchers have discovered two sets of ancient wave ripples on Mars, signatures of long-dried bodies of water preserved in the rock record. Wave ripples are small undulations in the sandy shores ...