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Grand Egyptian Museum honors the 12-year-old Egyptian boy who helped reveal Tutankhamun’s tomb, says his son, Nubi Abdel-Rasoul.

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

Dozens of ancient tombs, which some claim corroborate part of the New Testament, have been discovered in a historic lost city ...

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The first scientific evidence of the Black Death in Edinburgh has been discovered on the remains of a teenage boy who died in ...

The annual Pocklington District Heritage Archaeology Conference takes place at Burnby Hall in the town on Friday, November 14 ...

The famine was caused by the oomycete Phytophthora infestans, commonly known as late blight, which destroyed potato crops, the staple food for much of Ireland’s poor. This microorganism is very ...