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THE face of ancient Egypt's most powerful pharaoh can be seen for the very first time since he walked the Earth 3000 years ago.Ramesses II, who reigne

The Iron Age village of Carn Euny was abandoned over a thousand years ago, but its ruins are still standing today

AN ANCIENT Italian "beach" has reopened to the public for the first time in nearly 2,000 years.Holidaymakers can now visit the entire surface of an an

SCIENTISTS have conducted an autopsy of an ancient wolf that was found frozen solid after 44,000 years with its last meal still in its stomach.The sna

PRICELESS historic cargo from a ship that had been lost at sea for thousands of years has been discovered by accident.The cargo was found nearly 2000m

A NEW dinosaur with gigantic blade-like horns that walked the Earth almost 80 million years ago has been discovered in the US.The creature, one of the

THE REMAINS of an ancient sea-dwelling reptile have been declared the oldest of their kind in the Southern Hemisphere.A paper published Monday in the

THE face of the oldest known human being, whose body rewrote history, can be seen for the first time in 300,000 years.The Jebel Irhoud remains were a

A STRANGE, ancient structure by the sea that rivals the peculiarity of Stonehenge may have been built for a very British purpose.Archaeologists have f

THE earliest record of Jesus’s childhood has been found in a 2,000-year-old parchment that tells an incredible story not found in the Bible.Scrawled

ARCHAEOLOGISTS believe they have discovered the "lost" survivors of Pompeii who made it through the horror 18-hour volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago.I

THE world’s largest cheetah which roamed the earth more than one million years ago weighed as much as a gorilla.Scientists who examined fossils of t

BENEATH the deep jungles in the remote tangles of a Mexican peninsula lies an ancient hidden city that almost got lost in time.Left untouched for almo

THE resting place of Egypt’s most powerful pharaoh has been discovered 3,000 years after his death in a secret tomb underneath a monastery.The resti

FRESHLY unearthed, 2,000-year-old, graffiti suggests brutal gladiator battles in Ancient Rome weren't just an adults sport.Archeologists believe the d

ANCIENT Egyptians attempted brain surgery to remove cancer, experts have said.They discovered cut marks — believed to be from metal tools — on the

THE Egyptian Pyramid's may have been intended to tower above a lush, green stretch along the river Nile amid the arid western Sahara.But something hap

A PH.D. student has identified a fossil that dates back hundreds of millions of years and is the ancestor to our present-day creepy crawlers.The ances

ARCHEOLOGISTS are investigating a large, angular space discovered underground in an unexplored area of Egypt's most famous pyramids.The Giza pyramid c

NEW archaeological records provide evidence of a lost Atlantis-like landscape that early humans traveled on more than 70,000 years ago.However, resear

HUMANS from 8,000 years ago left traces behind in a 40-mile-deep cave that proves they somehow were able to maneuver through its extreme complexity.

A BREAKTHROUGH research has discovered the truth behind ruins in ancient Jerusalem which verifies the Bible's accounts.A stretch of wall in the origin

THE chilling mystery of Tutankhamun's cursed tomb has puzzled archaeologists for centuries after a string of suspicious deaths when it was opened up.B

ANCIENT EGYPT is one of the most well-studied periods in history and archaeologists are still uncovering major finds to this day.We've rounded up thre

ANCIENT humans lived in lava tubes inside cave systems around 7,000 years ago, according to a new study.The lava tube in question is called Umm Jirsan