The Grand Egyptian Museum is set to open in a few months. Here's what you can see of King Tut.

Archaeological discoveries indicate that alphabetic writing dates back 500 years earlier than previously believed. What ...

BCE clay cylinders with oldest known alphabetic writing were uncovered in Syria, challenging the origins of the alphabet.

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

Everything from fashion, to contemporary art, to ancient relics has the Midas touch at the ostentatious (and very shiny) ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland say small cylinders made out of clay have the oldest known ...

Beneath the Teotihuacan pyramid in Mexico, the remains of 2,000-year-old flower offerings were discovered within an ...

The wealthiest grave containing the oldest golden artifacts ever found from the 5th millennium BC was discovered in the 1970s ...