British researchers have discovered a rare handprint on a 4,000-year-old Egyptian artefact, a Cambridge museum said on Monday ...

Containing vast collections of treasures from the ancient world, the British Museum in London is a prodigious source of ...

British researchers have discovered a rare handprint on a 4,000-year-old Egyptian artefact, a Cambridge museum said yesterday ...

The British Museum's Ancient India, Living Traditions exhibition brings together exhibits on the sacred art of Hinduism, ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ancient Egyptian, who lived when the earliest pyramids were built ...

A London auction house says there is “no documented evidence” that an intricately carved grasshopper is from the boy king’s ...

It seems I have succeeded in meeting the most wonderful friends on my global travels. But now I have those connections, it ...

New discoveries surrounding the origins of Stonehenge have piqued the nation’s interest in all things archaeological. Here ...

Sixth form students from Chase High School, in Westcliff, went on a two-day trip to London. The group of 24 young people ...

Archaeologists are piecing together vivid 1,800-year-old frescoes from “thousands upon thousands upon thousands” of plaster ...

The grasshopper, just a few inches long and made from painted wood with ivory wings, is expected to sell for about half a ...