More than one hundred years after the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun, the original mud sealings that once secured ...

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia will reach a milestone of being continuously guarded by service members for 100 years on March 25. The tomb was established ...

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“The most important archaeological finding of the last decade” is how Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, described a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb recently found in San Pablo Huitzo in Oaxaca’s Etla ...

The owl symbolizes night and death in Zapotec culture. Luis Gerardo Peña Torres / INAH Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered an incredibly well-preserved Zapotec tomb dating back to the early ...

The world-famous burial chamber of King Tut is losing the solid structure that keeps its ceiling intact, with damage now clearly visible overhead. Water seeping in after rare desert floods has emerged ...

The death of Pharaoh Akhenaten in Regnal Year 17 was a powerful body-blow to the promotion of his fledgling religion, Atenism. Evacuated from their original communal crypt at Amarna, the royal dead ...

There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, technology, and everyday life are things we will never experience, but want to know ...

These ancient tombs aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. The tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt is plagued with cracks, water damage and fungi, sparking fears that “disaster could strike at any moment” for ...

King Tutankhamun’s tomb discovered after remaining hidden for over 3000 years. Credit: EditorfromMars / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 The tomb of Tutankhamun in Luxor is showing a risk of collapse ...

Is there or isn’t there a hidden chamber, or chambers, connected to King Tutankhamun’s tomb? Just when we think the story reaches a conclusion a new study emerges throwing the mystery back into the ...

A team of archaeologists excavating the ancient Maya city of Caracol discovered the tomb of its first ruler, which contained pottery, jadeite jewelry and a rare death mask In C.E. 331, Te K’ab Chaak ...