In a remarkable archaeological find, a rare papyrus containing the ‘Book of the Dead’ has been unearthed in an ancient ...

Egypt's pyramids hide some strange facts and mysteries, and the biggest among them is who built the pyramids. While aliens and supernatural forces have been suggested by fringe theorists, ...

(via BBC Earth Science) From ancient skulls that rewrote our origins to a 4,500-year-old papyrus that helped build the Great Pyramid, these six incredible objects reveal the 300,000-year journey of ...

A small fragment of faded papyrus contains a suggestion that Jesus may have been married. The fragment, with just eight lines of text on the front and six lines on the back, is from a fourth-century ...

A leading science facility in the English countryside is helping in a bid to decipher Roman-era scrolls carbonised in the deadly eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. The synchrotron ...

It may not have been the tax-evasion trial of the century — the second century, that is — but it was of such gravity that the defendants faced charges of forgery, fiscal fraud and the sham sale of ...