Ata is just six inches tall, with a conical-shaped head and unusually hard bones for her size. Some have claimed that she’s an alien. But a new study published today in the journal Genome Research not ...

A painting of a woman on lime wood is one of the mummy portraits being studied by researchers using special camera filters under different light wavelengths (left to right: visible, ultraviolet, and ...

Wooden coffin with deceased's name and pair of eyes (Courtesy Antonio Mozas-Calvache) Near the end of the dig season at a necropolis on the western bank of the Nile in Aswan, Egypt, a team led by ...

Designed by Giotto in the early 14th century, this ornate 277-foot high bell tower is part of the renowned Duomo in central Florence's Piazza del Duomo. Although it is known as Giotto's Bell Tower, it ...