Archeologists exhumed the primates' skeletons from Egypt's Valley of the Monkeys to discover how they lived 2,500 years ago

A village in Brazil that was in use for around 500 years, until the 10th century, may have been laid out on a celestial schematic

Silence of pre-Hispanic past broken with discovery of dance platform that could imitate the rumbling of thunder

The 1,200-year-old complex, which includes a massive platform topped with a temple, is associated with the Wari civilisation that thrived from AD600 to AD1000

Around 55 messages composed by the monarch reveal her condition under captivity and negotiations for her release

New invisible technology is being used to generate electricity at the archaeological site—and will also be used for other historic buildings in Italy, Portugal and Croatia

Excavations at Tell Timai in northern Egypt has found remains from the failed Great Revolt against the Ptolemaic rulers

Stefan Guzy has scoured archives from the Holy Roman Empire and believes he has traced back the ownership of the mysterious cipher book

Ancient remains are best preserved in oceans, ice patches and wetlands—which are at risk of rising temperatures

An excerpt from the work of ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus had been erased and written over

To mark 100 years since its discovery, Garry Shaw, the author of a new biography of the Egyptian Boy King, reveals some little-known facts about the world’s most famous death mask

Though scientific research has revealed much about the manuscript’s material properties and trajectory, its meaning remains elusive

The ancient inscriptions were in a hidden tunnel complex found by looters before archaeologists carried out a rescue mission

Less-experienced artists carved body parts, while master sculptors worked on faces among archaeologist's discoveries at the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut

Little has been know about the city of Karakorum where Genghis Khan once established a camp—until now

The tomb from the time of King Ramesses II is the latest big discovery at Saqqara, south of Cairo

Skeletons of 12 men believed to have fought in the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805 have been discovered in Brno

Archaeologists find body of young Chinese man stabbed to death and dumped in a robbers' tunnel 1300 years ago

Now housed in the British Museum’s Enlightenment Galleries, the mystical object used for occult investigations matches samples found in Mexico, researchers find

Radiocarbon dating of human bones and teeth in Peruvian ruins indicate that the Inca first lived at the citadel around 1420, not after 1440

Team using sonar technology have found evidence of structures and settlements on the seafloor

If bodice-rippers are too boring for your summer reading, take a crack at these other books that have stumped researchers

Musée Champollion in the south east of France—once owned by descendants of Egyptologist Jean-François Champollion’s family—is also exhibiting 82 artefacts on loan from the Louvre

The White Monument at Tell Banat contains the bones of what are believed to be around 30 dead soldiers, posed as if they fell in battle

A newly published research paper explains the authentication and repatriation process for a tsantsa once housed in Mercer University’s natural history collection

Two life-size outlines of boats are thought to have been etched into the grey rock face 10,000 years ago—and more could still await discovery

Archaeologists find remains of houses on stilts, possibly dating to 1000BC, which indicates Lucerne was settled earlier than thought

Citing the discovery of animal skulls and horns, researchers suggest that mustatils may have had a religious purpose

Life-size examples of rock art could have served as signposts when early Scandinavians populated the Mesolithic seascape

Researchers have used artificial intelligence and other advanced methods to examine the ancient writing