The so-called “Hall of the Moche Imaginary” is one of two elaborately decorated spaces archaeologists recently uncovered at Pañamarca

Looting by armed groups has been reported at institutions in Sudan, including the National Museum

Multispectral imaging has uncovered that the baffling symbols in the 15th-century document—dubbed the world’s most mysterious manuscript—were scrutinised by its owner, a Prague doctor

Sixteen panels, thought to have been created 5,000 to 7,000 years ago, include rare depictions of sheep

Tiny cut marks found on lesions inside the skull suggest that physicians working thousands of years ago may have operated on tumours

The discovery of the L-shaped object was made in an ancient Egyptian elite cemetery beside the Great Pyramid of Khufu

The discovery, at the ancient site of Ucanal, is believed to reflect a political regime change in the 8th or 9th century

Depicting scenes from Greek mythology, the works were discovered in the banqueting room of a large house in the ancient Roman city

Archaeologists working at a Unesco World Heritage site in Agrigento have revealed the remains of a previously unknown building

The 4,750-year-old circular stone plaza has been under analysis since 2018

Archeologists exhumed the primates' skeletons from Egypt's Valley of the Monkeys to discover how they lived 2,500 years ago

A village in Brazil that was in use for around 500 years, until the 10th century, may have been laid out on a celestial schematic

Silence of pre-Hispanic past broken with discovery of dance platform that could imitate the rumbling of thunder

The 1,200-year-old complex, which includes a massive platform topped with a temple, is associated with the Wari civilisation that thrived from AD600 to AD1000

Around 55 messages composed by the monarch reveal her condition under captivity and negotiations for her release

New invisible technology is being used to generate electricity at the archaeological site—and will also be used for other historic buildings in Italy, Portugal and Croatia

Excavations at Tell Timai in northern Egypt has found remains from the failed Great Revolt against the Ptolemaic rulers

Stefan Guzy has scoured archives from the Holy Roman Empire and believes he has traced back the ownership of the mysterious cipher book

Ancient remains are best preserved in oceans, ice patches and wetlands—which are at risk of rising temperatures

An excerpt from the work of ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus had been erased and written over

To mark 100 years since its discovery, Garry Shaw, the author of a new biography of the Egyptian Boy King, reveals some little-known facts about the world’s most famous death mask

Though scientific research has revealed much about the manuscript’s material properties and trajectory, its meaning remains elusive

The ancient inscriptions were in a hidden tunnel complex found by looters before archaeologists carried out a rescue mission

Less-experienced artists carved body parts, while master sculptors worked on faces among archaeologist's discoveries at the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut

Little has been know about the city of Karakorum where Genghis Khan once established a camp—until now

The tomb from the time of King Ramesses II is the latest big discovery at Saqqara, south of Cairo

Skeletons of 12 men believed to have fought in the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805 have been discovered in Brno

Archaeologists find body of young Chinese man stabbed to death and dumped in a robbers' tunnel 1300 years ago

Now housed in the British Museum’s Enlightenment Galleries, the mystical object used for occult investigations matches samples found in Mexico, researchers find

Radiocarbon dating of human bones and teeth in Peruvian ruins indicate that the Inca first lived at the citadel around 1420, not after 1440