Jars holding the 2,900-year-old cremated remains of Phoenicians have been unearthed at Tyre, in southern Lebanon. “The big jars are like individual tombs. The smaller jars are left empty, but symbolically represent that a soul is stored in them,” said archaeologist Ali Badawi. Can the damage done to ancient Babylon be repaired? Looters, Saddam Hussein’s […]

Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Ray Packard went down in his P-38 Lightning fighter over German-occupied France in 1944. U.S. military archaeologists recently recovered his remains and returned them to his family. Egypt’s 118th pyramid has been uncovered in Saqqara, according to an announcement made by Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of […]