To protect the earliest known cave paintings in Chauvet Cave in southern France while still educating the public about them, a stadium-sized replica was created near the cave.

"The Yoda image comes from a 14th-century manuscript known as the Smithfield Decretals.”

Researchers have said that the Jewish teenager Anne Frank died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at least a month earlier than her official date of death.

The UK Culture Ministry announced that the 4,000-year-old Egyptian statue Sekhemka will not leave the United Kingdom. Northampton Borough Council sold the statue last year for £15.76m to an overseas buyer believed ...

Geological Society archivists have uncovered a rare, early copy of the Geological Map of England and Wales, published by William Smith in 1815. Though not the world’s first geological map, Smith’s was the first geological ...

The University of Leicester announced that King Richard III’s skeleton was sealed inside a coffin at a private ceremony. In 2013, the bones of Richard III were found in a parking lot in Leicester, central England. ...

A Belgium archeological mission working at Tel Al-Amarna area in Al-Minya governorate, 300 km south of Cairo, has revealed through satellite imagery how the ancient Egyptians built the city of Al-Amarna. Tel Al-Amarna ...

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen says he has found the wreck of a long-lost World War II Japanese battleship, the Musashi — one of the largest battleships ever built at that time, near the Philippines. ...

An examination conducted in Netherland found that a nearly 1000-years-old Buddhist statue from China encases the mummified remains of a monk.

On February 16, 1923, in Thebes, Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter opened the sealed doorway to the burial chamber of the Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamen. His tomb was nearly intact. All of Carter’s discoveries ...