Photo courtesy Kumanan Kanapathippillai As the Chemmani mass graves are uncovered once more, Sri Lanka stands at a decisive ...

In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy king’s relatives among mummies thought to belong to the royal family ...

An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around them as a supercontinent broke up.

Vintage luggage – sturdy Samsonite cases and elegant leather train cases – stands ready for both travel and creative repurposing as home storage or display. What makes these unexpected categories so ...

A DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago in the Nile Valley has shed new light on the rise of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation.

ASI's Deeg excavation reveals ancient riverbeds, iron usage, early Brahmi script, and Vedic religious artifacts, reshaping Indian history.

We don't know exactly why men are taller than women on average, but we have some genetic clues. On average, human males tend ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the full genome of a 4,800-year-old Egyptian man. The DNA reveals North African ...

Ancient Egypt is a period of time that elicits great fascination and, even today, secrets from that era are continuing to be uncovered. For the first time, scientists have now been able to sequence ...

The victims of Herb Baumeister are still being identified nearly three decades after the serial killer’s death on July 3, ...

It's widely considered one of the cradles of civilisation. But a new study has revealed that people living in ancient Egypt ...

A man who lived nearly 4,800 years ago has been brought alive after his DNA was sequenced for the first time. The ...