Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities That means the head dates back at least seven centuries earlier than the ruins of the medieval house it was found in—a “captivating enigma” that ...

As a team of French archaeologists excavated a seventh-century C.E. dwelling at Taposiris Magna, an ancient city located around 30 miles west of Alexandria along Egypt’s northern coast, they found two ...

Photo from Xavier Sicart Chavarría via INAH Hidden beneath the rainforest of southern Mexico sit the ruins of a massive ancient Maya settlement. Archaeologists knew of the site since the 1980s ...