These Royal Mummies Sat in a Museum Basement for Over a Century. Their Bones Just Rewrote History.

Analysis of the bones of several 12 th Dynasty princesses has revealed that their arm and shoulder bones were highly ...

A Coin Collector Thought He Found an Old English Penny. It May Be the Crux of a Viking Hoax.

In 1957, an amateur archaeologist and coin collector discovered a silver coin on Maine’s central coast. The coin was ...

A Hairdresser Noticed Something Strange About Roman Statues—and Solved a 2,000-Year-Old Puzzle

But when Stephens ran her needle through rows of braids and sewed them together, she saw that the hold was better than any ...