Archeologists have found the remains of a cluster of tents with hearths on a remote High Arctic island that date back more ...

Doctors used CT scans to study ancient Egyptian mummies, uncovering injuries, aging, and personal details without disturbing ...

The artifact comes from a Predynastic cemetery at Badari in Upper Egypt, specifically Grave 3932 (an adult male burial). It measures about 63 mm long and weighs roughly 1.5 grams, so small it was easy ...

A legendary golden fabric once worn only by emperors has made an astonishing comeback. Korean scientists have successfully recreated ancient sea silk—a rare, shimmering fiber prized since Roman ...

China's Kung fu is an ancient and revered martial art well known across the world, practised for over decades and passed down ...

Recent advances in medical imaging are providing new insights into the daily lives of ancient Egyptians. Radiologists at Keck ...

Scents from the past are being recreated using state of the art technology to give museum visitors a whiff of Egyptian history.

Researchers have been able to gain a fascinating insight into the lives of the two ancient priests dating back 2,000 years.

X-ray scans conducted on a 2,000-year-old mummy have revealed that the ancient Egyptian lived with an aching lower back, not unlike many modern humans. Radiologists subjected two mummies dated to ...

Today, the People’s Liberation Army is widely viewed as a force on the rise—larger, more technologically advanced, and ...

Both the mummies and 3D models and prints of the scans will be on display at the California Science Center’s upcoming ...

Advances in the field have shown that ancient objects can retain the "molecular fingerprints" of past aromatic practices.