Here is a puzzle for you. Who lies below in this family vault in the graveyard of St Mary the Virgin, Cheshunt in Hertfordshire? And what...

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Archaeologists excavating a site in Sudan have discovered 35 pyramids revealing fascinating links between the bygone Kingdom of Kush that o...

Extraordinary brightly-coloured glass jewellery believed to be from Ancient Egypt has been found in a 2,400-year-old burial mound in Siberi...

Pictures show for the first time how cutting-edge technology is being used to analyse the millennia-old mystery of Egyptian mummies. Sta...