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Old buried ships unearth this city’s seafaring past
In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, as the city of Alexandria, Virginia, develops new construction projects, a team of archaeologists is on hand to help preserve a particularly remarkable discovery: three ships from the 1700s hidden in the…
Thanks to a particle accelerator, we can see inside this ancient mummy
On Monday, a team of scientists carted the mummy of a five-year-old girl off for a 24-hour session with a particle accelerator.
How cosmic rays spotted a hidden ‘void’ within the Great Pyramid — and why we still don’t know what’s inside
It's the first big structure found inside the Great Pyramid of Giza since the Middle Ages.
Ancient fossils from Morocco mess up modern human origins
The findings may push back the origin of our species by more than 100,000 years and challenge leading ideas about where and how our lineage evolved.
An archaeological site near San Diego suggests humans arrived in America more than 100,000 years before previously thought.
When the Islamic State militant group captured parts of Northern Iraq in 2014, it declared war on the ancient city of Nimrud. Though reclaimed by Iraqi forces last November, the ruins have been forever changed, the victim of massive destruction.
The spread of the Islamic State militants and other extremist groups across the Middle East and North Africa forced international archaeologists to abandon dozens of beloved historical sites like Mosul and Palmyra. But as ISIS begins to lose momentum and…
Archaeologists in Egypt have completed the first phase of a new search for King Tut's tomb. The question at hand: Could the tomb contain the undiscovered burial place of Queen Nefertiti? NewsHour's Ivette Feliciano reports.
The Syrian Army has reclaimed Palmyra from the Islamic State group, dealing a major setback to the militants. Lindsey Hilsum of Independent Television News reports on the state of the ancient city, home to a sprawling set of Roman ruins…
