A "lucky" scientist who unearthed curious bones in India recently found out they are the world's oldest known rabbit fossils, dating back 53 million years.
The Iraq National Museum—which saw many of its ancient treasures looted following the 2003 U.S-led invasion—will not reopen to the public after renovations are complete, officials announced.
More than 2,000 ill-got pre-Islamic artifacts have been handed over to Iraq's national museum from an area southeast of Baghdad, an Iraqi cultural official says.
With tiny brushes and chisels, workers in the basement of North Dakota's state museum are meticulously uncovering the nearly complete dinosaur—skin and all.
The multipurpose axes—which functioned like modern-day Swiss army knives—were possibly used 100,000 years ago when the North Sea was a grassy hunting ground.
Experts have digitally reconstructed one of Rome's earliest major temples, the Temple of Apollo, shedding new light on cultural life during the reign of the first Roman emperor.
Humans crossed the Bering land bridge 22,000 years ago but couldn't escape ice there for thousands of years, according to a combined genetic and archaeological analysis.
Four ancient mummies were confiscated Wednesday, and three smugglers were arrested after stealing the artifacts from an ancient Egyptian graveyard, a guard says.
