Archaeologists have recently unearthed a stunning ancient Buddha statue in Egypt, believed to have been carved in the 5th century AD. The statue is made of limestone, and stands at a height of 1.2 meters (3.9 feet). It is thought to have been carved during the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I (491-518 AD). […]

The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient Jewish and Hebrew religious manuscripts that were found in the Qumran Caves in the Judaean Desert, near Ein Feshkha on the northern shore of the Dead Sea in the West Bank, and the last discovered scrolls found in the Cave of Horror in Israel. Researchers say Artificial Intelligence (AI) […]

Archaeologists found the human remains during a dig beneath an old school building at Cambridge University – one of England’s oldest and most impressive universities. Images from the dig, viewing almost fully preserved medieval bodies unearthed after centuries of burial, were released for the first time yesterday, in a report published by the Archaeological Journal. […]

The ancient fortress site of Tiahuanaco  in western Bolivia is still itself revealing secrets thousands of years after its peak as capital of an empire, and home to one of the most important civilizations prior to the Inca. Archaeologists from the Tiahuanaco Archeological Research Center have found an underground pyramid at the site using ground-penetrating […]

Two ancient Egyptian mummies with their wooden sarcophagi have been found from sewage water near El Minya, Egypt. Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities says these Greco-Roman period mummies had been buried in tombs in a small village in northeastern Egypt, 150 miles south of Cairo. The mummies, which were found wrapped in several layers of thick […]