Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Detail of a Fayum funerary portrait that will go up for sale at Sotheby's New York as part of its Old Masters sales. - Courtesy ...

A 2,000-year-old mummy discovered in Egypt has revealed an unusual link between ancient Greek literature and Egyptian burial rituals. Archaeologists found a fragment of Homer's “Iliad” sealed in a ...

Scientist at the University of Aberdeen are using 3D imaging software to create interactive models of mummies and other ancient artifacts.

(CNN) — A funerary portrait from Roman Egypt will go up for sale next week, featuring a strikingly modern-looking male subject with piercing hazel eyes and graying hair. The painting is one of 900 or ...

After initially probing a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus in Naples with a micro camera, archaeologists were encouraged enough by what they saw to step inside this sealed tomb for the first time. But once ...

(CNN) — A funerary portrait from Roman Egypt, featuring a strikingly modern-looking male subject with piercing hazel eyes and graying hair, sold for more than double its high estimate on Thursday ...