Archaeology

Archaeological predictions for the new year include: discoveries from Egypt's "lost golden city," new finds from Qumran and evidence that may shed light on what life was like 11,000 years ago.

These coin hoards, many discovered by lucky amateurs, contain treasures dating back as far as 1,500 years.

Some 3,000 years after the burial of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep, a team of researchers used CT scans to digitally unwrap his body for the first time.

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a massive "garbage dump" at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor that is brimming with ancient offerings to a fertility goddess.

Archaeologists in Norway have discovered the remains of a cluster of Norse longhouses, including one of the largest of these structures ever found.

An infant burial discovered in the Italian Alps sheds light on how the hunter-gatherers of Europe dealt with issues of personhood and status 10,000 years ago.

Police in Jerusalem seized a hoard of stolen antiquities that date to a 1,900-year-old Jewish rebellion against the Romans.

Three gold tongues, belonging to a man, woman and child who lived in Egypt about 2,500 years ago, were found in two tombs.

The remains of a man, possibly a slave, indicate that he was crucified in the third or fourth century A.D. in Roman England.

Archaeologists in Cyprus found two tombs dating to the Bronze Age that contained 500 grave goods.

A chemical analysis of a medieval man's remains from the Scottish Highlands reveals he wasn't a local.

The biblical city where the Gospels tell of Jesus performing some of his most famous miracles is now a source of debate among archaeologists.

Archaeologists in Russia have unearthed a Scythian-crafted silver plate depicting a fertility goddess.

A Roman villa was discovered beneath a U.K. farm.

Archaeologists have found the oldest jewelry decorated by anatomically modern humans in Eurasia on record.

More than 2,000 years ago, a guerrilla army of Jewish rebels stormed and defeated a stronghold of the occupying Seleucid Empire.

Five rare "non-returning" boomerangs found in dry riverbed in South Australia were probably used hundreds of years ago to hunt waterbirds, according to a new study.

The former waste dump, condemned as an environmental disaster site in the 1980s, could be the resting place of Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa, a recent deathbed confession revealed.

Nearly 5,500 silver coins dating from 1,800 years ago have been discovered in Augsburg, Germany.

An amateur archaeologist in Switzerland has discovered an ornate dagger wielded by a Roman soldier 2,000 years ago.