The rare pre-Inca mummy was masked and entombed with a child sacrifice. Found near high-rises in Lima, the tomb is one of the few known unlooted Wari burials.

A newfound underground labyrinth filled with stone temples and pyramids—some underwater—likely relates to Maya myths of the afterlife, archaeologists say.

The world's oldest intact mummy wore the hides of herd beasts, not wild animals, says a new study that suggests the Iceman lived in a pastoral-agricultural society.

Ruins of a pagan temple from the second century A.D. have been unearthed in the heart of a former Jewish capital, archaeologists say.

A 10,000-year-old cemetery with hundreds of skeletons is giving unparalleled insight into life in Africa's great desert when it was green and lush.

The biggest graveyard ever found in the region has revealed how ancient humans lived and died when the desert was a grassy savanna about 10,000 years ago.

A new British Museum survey of several important archaeological sites in southern Iraq suggests antiquities there are threatened more by neglect, erosion, and military activities than looting.

Giant kangaroo-like beasts and thousand-pound marsupial hippos went extinct on the Australian island of Tasmania more than 40,000 years ago from hunting, not climate change, scientists say.

A recent archaeological survey of ancient sites in southern Iraq found that looting has come to an end and damage from neglect is now the chief threat to many ancient Mesopotamian sites.

Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans likely did not interbreed, says a new DNA study that also suggests small population numbers helped do in our closest relatives.

The 70-foot (21-meter) sailer is the biggest and "best preserved" vessel of its kind ever found, archaeologists say.

The chieftain, found buried with a bronze helmet and ornate shield, hints at close connections with the Romans before the empire's conquest of Britain, archaeologists say.

Two mummified fetuses found in King Tut's tomb will undergo DNA testing to determine their relation to the famous pharaoh, Egyptian officials announced today.

The plant-eating dinos grew three to five times faster than predators such as Tyrannosaurus rex, giving them a size advantage in their early years, a new study says.

Cow herders in northwest Turkey became the world's first dairy producers some 8,500 years ago, up to 2,000 years earlier than previously thought, a new discovery of ancient milk containers shows.