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X-ray analysis reveals the 17-century man carried a satchel full of coins.

The latest theory about how Ötzi was killed emerged from a three-day conference about the mummy.

Proteins from the mummies' skin and muscle samples show the people likely had cancer, lung infections and other diseases.

A parchment from the Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini was intended as a message to the future.

The small bead is estimated to be some 6,500 years old.

The mystery of how early humans survived the Ice Age while Neanderthals disappeared into evolutionary oblivion may lie in their choice of outerwear.

Nomads entered Europe from the eastern Steppes — bearing cannabis.

One of the oldest illuminated manuscripts of the New Testament gets its purple color from dye created with fermented urine.

The images show the wreck has badly deteriorated, with the bow almost broken up.

X-ray analysis confirms that the iron of the dagger placed on the thigh of the boy king has meteoric origins.

A new, nearly hundred-foot Nazca geoglyph in Peru has been uncovered.

The interior of a pyramid has been reconstructed for the first time in an ancient Egyptian pyramid using cosmic particles.

The newly found drawings show demonic entities populated the ancient Egyptians' imaginations as far back as 4,000 years ago.

New analysis reveals that a copper belt might have contributed to the mummification of a lung belonging to Merovingian royalty.

A new generation of muon telescopes has been built to detect the presence of secret structures within Egypt's pyramids.

A forensic search identifies direct descendants of the Renaissance genius. And researchers hint there are some surprising names.

What did Jesus and his apostles eat during the Last Supper? New research reveals the likely menu.

Distinctive linear plumes of these particles extend as far as 2.5 miles downstream from shallow shipwreck sites.

A fragment has been pieced together with thousands of other marble fragments to make up a 2,200-year-old map of Rome.

The naturally mummified body of German adventurer Manfred Fritz Bajorat, 59, was found by two fishermen who spotted a battered vessel in the Philippine Sea about 60 miles from Barabo.

As a search is set to resume for Amelia Earhart's remains and her plane, researchers make an odd discovery.

The young man was buried in a vertical pit in a 8,500-year-old cemetery, one of the oldest ever found in Europe.

King Tut is the only 18th Dynasty pharaoh whose mummy has been identified with certainty, says a new analysis.

Prolonged hammering and chiseling accelerated degenerative arthritis in the hands of Michelangelo.

The sculptures date to the first or second century AD and stand at around 21 inches in height.