Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered the remains of an epidemic that so fiercely ravaged the population at the time that some believed it to be a sign of the apocalypse.
The skeleton discovered at an archaeological dig in East Lothian in 2005 may be the skeleton of Irish Viking king Olaf Guthfrithsson.
A group of students have discovered a 7,000-year-old mummy during an archaeology field trip to Morro de Arica in northern Chile.
Archaeologists believe that they have found the wreck of Christopher Columbus’ flagship, the Santa Maria, at the bottom of the sea off the northern coast of Haiti in the Caribbean.
A 5,600-year-old tomb containing a skeleton and a 32cm ivory statue of a bearded man have been unearthed by archaeologists in southern Egypt