Long before Rome claimed authority over the Italian peninsula, the Etruscans shaped a culture grounded in ritual practice and visual expression. Their cities prospered through trade and craft, yet ...

Italian archaeologists recently uncovered a "monumental necropolis" that appeared to honor an elite class of people thousands of years ago, provincial officials announced this month. The ancient ...

DAHSHOUR, Egypt -- In this more than 4,500-year-old Pharaonic necropolis, Egypt's modern rituals of the dead are starting to encroach on its ancient ones. Steamrollers flatten the desert sand, and ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a huge Roman cemetery containing more than 250 burials of infants and stillborn babies. The ancient necropolis was uncovered in Place du Maréchal Leclerc—a square in the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ongoing excavation in Damietta, Egypt, has uncovered 63 tombs from more than 2,500 years ago, alongside a trove of gold ...

Bulgarian construction workers unearthed the world's oldest gold treasure in 1972, dating back to 4600 BC. The Varna Necropolis revealed over 13 pounds of meticulously crafted gold artifacts, ...

TUNA AL-GABAL, Egypt -- Egypt's Antiquities Ministry announced on Saturday the discovery of an ancient necropolis near the Nile Valley city of Minya, south of Cairo, the latest discovery in an area ...

A newfound necropolis in central Italy that once sat near an exclusive villa along an ancient road holds the remains of 67 people and their treasures, including gold jewelry. When you purchase through ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered at least 20 wooden coffins in an ancient necropolis in the southern city of Luxor. In a statement, the Antiquities Ministry described the find as “one of the ...