A “door to the afterlife” from the tomb of an advisor to Queen Hatshepsut was unearthed in Luxor, Egypt. The slab of red granite had been reused during the Roman period. In South Saqqara, scientists are using the alignments of pyramids to look for the tomb of Userkare, the little-known second pharaoh of the sixth […]

Loggers in Oregon discovered the wreckage of a World War II-era, U.S. Navy aircraft last week. Investigators do not know yet if human remains are at the site. One such plane was reported missing in 1945 with two crew members. A technique developed to generate 3-D imagery for computer games is helping archaeologists to get […]