Italian archaeologists recently uncovered a "monumental necropolis" that appeared to honor an elite class of people thousands of years ago, provincial officials announced this month. The ancient ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive limestone burial chamber was uncovered within a royal necropolis in Abydos, Egypt. Who the tomb belonged to remains a ...

Archaeologists from the French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Science (Inrap) have discovered a large ...

Archaeologists recently discovered an ancient "city of the dead" in Italy, dating back nearly 3,000 years. The Italian province of Trentino said in a news release that a "monumental necropolis" from ...

An extremely rare discovery has just been made in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Tel el-Deir in Damietta. There, excavations have revealed dozens of burials that have been untouched for millennia; ...

The find in Saqqara included 150 bronze statues of ancient Egyptian deities. SAQQARA, Egypt -- Egypt has uncovered 2,500-year-old wooden coffins and bronze statues in the ancient necropolis of Saqqara ...

DAHSHOUR, Egypt -- In this more than 4,500-year-old Pharaonic necropolis, Egypt's modern rituals of the dead are starting to encroach on its ancient ones. Steamrollers flatten the desert sand, and ...

For centuries, Egypt’s Saqqara necropolis has guarded its dead beneath layers of desert sand. Just south of Cairo, this sprawling burial ground once served as the cemetery for ancient Memphis, a city ...

ASTANA — Five underground mosques in Kazakhstan’s Mangystau Region have been added to UNESCO’s Tentative List of World ...

Bulgarian construction workers unearthed the world's oldest gold treasure in 1972, dating back to 4600 BC. The Varna Necropolis revealed over 13 pounds of meticulously crafted gold artifacts, ...

A large necropolis discovered in an ancient oasis provides a missing piece to the archaeological puzzle of the Iron Age, officials said. Screengrab from the United Arab Emirates' Department of Culture ...

Italian archaeologists recently uncovered a "monumental necropolis" that appeared to honor an elite class of people thousands of years ago, provincial officials announced this month. The ancient ...