Archaeologists found the statue in 2021 at the site of Saqqara, a vast necropolis where the ancient Egyptians buried their dead for thousands of years. It has no inscriptions, but based on its design, ...

An "unparalleled" funerary statue of an ancient Egyptian man whose name may be Messi has been discovered at the Saqqara necropolis — and it shows him standing with what appears to be his tiny wife and ...

A limestone statue discovered in 2021 at the Saqqara necropolis is upending what archaeologists thought they knew about sculpture in Ancient Egypt’s Old Kingdom. Buried for over four millennia beneath ...

A study appearing in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology by Dr. Zahi Hawass and Dr. Sarah Abdoh describes a unique Egyptian family statue. The statue, made of limestone, was recovered from Gisr ...

The origin of Easter Island's iconic head statues is one of the world's greatest archaeological puzzles. Now, scientists ...

The researchers connected an inscription on a marble pedestal to the well-preserved marble sculpture. Photos by A.B. Biernacki / Klenina et al., npj Heritage Science, 2025 More than two decades ago, ...

Doomed Egyptian queen Cleopatra has captured the imaginations of people all over the world for centuries. Archaeologists have ...

In 1930, German archaeologists uncovered the lower half of a massive statue, estimating that it likely originally stood some 23 feet tall. Now, U.S. and Egyptian archaeologists have announced the ...

The discovery, published in Nature Geoscience, provides unprecedented insight into the chemical building blocks that formed our planet and challenges long-held assumptions about the complete ...

Visitors from Leeds’s twin city in Germany have showered their Yorkshire companions with praise, saying they have been ...

For a city in the hinterlands of the Roman Empire, attaining eleutheria was highly coveted. The word means liberty in Greek and granted a city the right to run its own administrative and legal affairs ...