The pyramid of Sahure is very old, even by ancient Egyptian standards. Standing south of Cairo on the western banks of the Nile, near the Pyramid of Djoser (better known as the step pyramid), the ...

For the first time, a trilobite fossil has been found with preserved gut contents, and an analysis of the specimen suggests the iconic ancient animal had a voracious and unfussy appetite.

Some archaeologists describe Peru’s capital as an onion with many layers of history, others consider it a box of surprises.

With his team, Laurent Marivaux, a palaeontologist at the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences of Montpellier, France, has been discovering primates and rodents that emerged in South America more ...

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Archaeologists have uncovered a battered shoe from the Middle Ages in the remains of an ancient street underneath a construction site in Freiberg, Germany. All that remains of the shoe is the top ...

New “treasures and secrets” have been revealed at the site of a sunken temple off the Egyptian coast, the European Institute ...

“Mummies of the World: The Exhibition” is the first exhibit to take up residence in the theater’s district’s newest venue, ...

See the importance of imaginary creatures in the past, and why we need to create new monsters today, at the Louvre-Lens ...

THE bizarre saga that saw two “non-human” bodies unveiled by a so-called UFO expert in Mexico has taken yet another strange ...

Peru has launched a criminal investigation to determine how a pair of supposed “alien corpses” were taken out of the country ...