TOKYO — A Japanese space explorer took off today on a six-year journey to blow a crater in a remote asteroid and try to bring back rock samples.
The explorer, named Haya...
CAIRO — Egypt is officially requesting the return of the 3,300-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti that has been in a Berlin museum for decades.
The bust, dating back to th...
CAIRO, Egypt — More than half a century ago, a prominent Egyptian archeologist unearthed a stunning ancient mummy mask at the Saqqara pyramids near Cairo — the golden im...
Boy king's remains put in glass case
LUXOR, Egypt — King Tut's buck-toothed face was unveiled Sunday for the first time in public — more than 3,000 years after the younge...
Beast walked Earth in 88 million B.C.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — The skeleton of what is believed to be a new dinosaur species — a 105-foot plant-eater that is among the la...
Collection dates to about 900 B.C.
JERUSALEM — Archaeologists digging in northern Israel have discovered evidence of a 3,000-year-old beekeeping industry, including remna...
Dig targets burial grounds
SAQQARA, Egypt — Archaeologists unveiled the tombs Tuesday of a pharaonic butler and a scribe that have been buried for more than 3,000 years ...
But flower find is rare
LUXOR, Egypt — Archaeologists hoped the first tomb discovered in the Valley of the Kings in 80 years would hold the mummy of King Tut's mother. Th...
Exchange deal part of return
ROME — New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art agreed Monday to return antiquities Italy says were looted in exchange for long-term loans of ot...
CAIRO, Egypt - The models show a baby-faced young man with chubby cheeks and his family's characteristic overbite, a weak chin and a pronounced, sloping nose beneath an ...
