Workers restoring a Luxor mosque have uncovered a temple to Ramses II, including elaborately carved reliefs featuring an unusual form of ancient Egyptian writing.
The centuries-old skeletons bear evidence of quick and puzzling deaths, the bodies having been found where they fell, without burial, an archaeologist said.
Los Angeles's Getty Museum signed a deal on Tuesday with Italy to return 40 contested artifacts, including a "cult statue" of the Roman goddess Aphrodite.
Reproduced from an eighth-century Koran, a solid-gold book worth an estimated six million U.S. dollars was loaned from Russia to Iran in September 2007.
Islamists tried to blow up a statue of Buddha carved into a mountain in Pakistan on September 10. "Whether it is destroyed or not, it does not matter," said one villager. "It is just an engraving made by foreigners."
A Swedish gardener dug up a thousand-year-old hoard of silver coins collected by Norse seafarers from places as far as away as present-day Iraq and Uzbekistan.
It's all in the wrist, according to a new study suggesting that the "hobbit" human found in Indonesia is a discrete species and not a diseased modern human.
Natural formations or 5,000-year-old city ruins? Scientists are still divided over the origin of mysterious stone structures off the coast of Japan's Yonaguni Jima.
Stone structures lying off a tiny Pacific island continue to draw controversy over whether they are natural formations or the ruins of a 5,000-year-old city.
Fossils of human ancestors found in the republic of Georgia suggest we evolved from a patchwork species that had both apelike and more advanced features, scientists report.
