A middle-aged woman continuously shed tears before the golden mask of a young pharaoh excavated from 3,300 years of darkness.

Tucked away in central Florida, Ocala stands as a magnificent contradiction to what most visitors expect from the Sunshine State – no crowded beaches, no endless theme park lines, just pure, ...

Shore Acres State Park, once the estate of timber baron Louis Simpson, features formal gardens that seem completely out of place on the wild Oregon coast. This delightful contradiction makes the roses ...

Art history has all but forgotten the love that sculptor Auguste Rodin had for the art of Egypt. A new exhbition in New York ...

Italy recovers rare ancient Greek artifacts tied to Magna Graecia, highlighting efforts to protect cultural heritage.

Archaeologists in Budapest have unearthed a well-preserved Roman sarcophagus, revealing insights into the life of a young ...

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, in modern-day Turkey, was an ornate memorial built for Carian ruler Mausolus and overseen by his sister-wife Artemesia II.

Archaeologists have discovered 225 shabtis — figurines meant to work for the deceased in the afterlife — in a pharaoh's tomb.

NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the phrase ...