A painting of a woman on lime wood is one of the mummy portraits being studied by researchers using special camera filters under different light wavelengths (left to right: visible, ultraviolet, and ...

Cheetahs once roamed across most of Africa and parts of Asia, but now live in just 9% of their previous range and haven’t ...

A mummified human head kept in a Swiss museum displayed incorrect details about who the person was and where he came from.

Scientists have successfully extracted the DNA of ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia. This is ...

Researchers excavated seven mummies along with the bones of 54 other cheetahs from a site near the city of Arar.

We dig into the missing heart of ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamun and what archaeologists have learned a century since the discovery of the young pharaoh’s tomb. This spectacular mask represents an ...

In a new take on a technology from the 1960s, this year, researchers created a cassette tape that uses DNA instead of iron oxide to encode information on a plastic tape. It can hold a phenomenal ...