Paintings and etchings found in cliffs south of Cairo look just like—and are as old as—the iconic Stone Age art of Spain and France.

See inside Tutankhamun and a mummy some think is the pharaoh Akhenaten. Odd skulls and other similarities suggest the mummies may be related.

New medical scans bolster the theory that an unidentified corpse is Akhenaten—the heretic pharaoh married to Nefertiti who some believe was Tut's father.

Photos: Who Was Tut's Father?

Remains of chili peppers prepared and eaten by Zapotec Indians as far back as A.D. 600 reveal a surprisingly diverse diet similar to modern Mexico's.

From Rome's Colosseum to India's Taj Mahal, see how the recently announced "new seven wonders of the world" stack up against the original list of ancient monuments.

Artifacts that may be the earliest evidence of modern humanity in India suggest that humans there survived a giant volcanic eruption 74,000 years ago.

See pictures of some of UNESCO's new additions to the World Heritage list, from Sydney's famous opera house to an archaeological city in Iraq.

Adventurers exploring a cave on an island in the Indian Ocean have discovered the most complete and well preserved dodo skeleton ever found, scientists announced.

The mummy of a salt mine worker, naturally preserved in the mineral for 1,800 years, surfaced recently in Iran—but scientists might just leave it be.

A 1.2-million-year-old tooth discovered last week in northern Spain came from Western Europe's earliest known human, according to the team that made the find.

Getting airborne was a challenge for the giant Argentavis magnificens, a condorlike bird that soared over South America about six million years ago.

Ancient squash, peanut, and cotton remains show that farming spread rapidly across the Americas about 10,000 years ago, a new study says.

A mummy discovered in 1903 is that of gender-bending female pharaoh Hatshepsut, who ruled Egypt as both queen and king nearly 3,500 years ago, experts announced today.

Watch as archaeologists reveal how they identified the long-lost mummy of Hatshepsut, an Egyptian ruler famous for donning the male garb of a pharaoh.

A broken molar found in a box of ancient internal organs was the key to finding Egypt's long-lost gender-bending ruler, Egyptian authorities announced.