Fighting has resumed between Thailand and Cambodia at their disputed border near the 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple.  In Campeche, Mexico, a rare staircase engraved with hieroglyphic texts has been unearthed on the outskirts of the Classic Maya site of El Palmar. Such staircases are usually parts of monumental structures in the centers of Maya cities; […]

One of two 42-foot-tall statues of Amenhotep III is being unearthed at his 3,400-year-old mortuary temple in Luxor. The temple was destroyed by flooding and an earthquake in 27 B.C.  A doctor at the University of Vermont’s teaching hospital made high-powered CT scans of a 14-year-old Egyptian girl’s mummy. Those detailed images inspired the medical […]