The underground cemeteries, nearly 2,000 years old, hold some of the earliest evidence of Christian faith, belief in the ...

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

The tomb of King Tutankhamun was discovered in November 1922 by Howard Carter, but several members of the excavation team, ...

A 101-year-old copy of the Radio Times has been discovered in a church stool that was being refurbished. Furniture restorer ...

Even in their natural state, some asperigimycins killed leukemia cells in lab tests. But the researchers went further. By ...

The deadly fungus credited with killing the archaeologists that opened the tomb of King Tut might become a treatment for cancer ...

Aspergillus flavus is a toxic crop fungus that has been linked to deaths in the excavation of ancient tombs. It was recently ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at cancer-killing fungi, robots that perform surgery on your eyeballs, ...

Until now, researchers believed that the city of Amarna (the Arabic name for the ancient city of Akhetaten), founded by ...

The 'rediscovery' of the ancient city of Imet, in Egypt's eastern Nile Delta, has been hailed a landmark historical find.

The imposing Kew mausoleum, with its tall columns, stone pythons and scarabs, was built for an Egyptophile with a penchant ...

He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...