The 37m feline figure, said to have been created some 2,000 years ago, escaped notice for centuries.

Egypt on Saturday put on show dozens of coffins belonging to priests and clerks from the 26th dynasty nearly 2,500 years ago, with archaeologists saying tens more were found in the vast Saqqara necropolis just days ago.

The 27 wooden coffins are said to have lain undisturbed inside a well at an ancient necropolis.

Scientists examining an ancient Aboriginal site are split over whether charred rocks and weather-worn shells are 120,000-year-old evidence of Indigenous life.

Invaders, pirates, warriors—the history books taught us that Vikings were brutal predators who travelled by sea from Scandinavia to pillage and raid their way across Europe and beyond.

Archaeologists from South Africa have uncovered rudimentary beds that early humans made by placing bundles of grass onto a layer of ash. Sounds basic, but these Stone Age beds were more sophisticated than they appear at first glance.

Jabal Maragha, an ancient site in Sudan dating back to the the Kingdom of Kush, has been devastated by gold diggers.

IRISH ARCHAEOLOGISTS have made an incredible discovery in Cork, having unearthed the foundations of a house from the Neolithic era. The ancient house is believed to be 5,700 years old, and was likely the home of a family from one of the earliest farming communities to have settled in the south of Ireland.

Scientists estimate carcass is up to 39,500 years old and hail find as ‘groundbreaking’

Around 120,000 years ago in what is now northern Saudi Arabia, a small band of homo sapiens stopped to drink and forage at a shallow lake that was also frequented by camels, buffalo and elephants bigger than any species seen today.

Archaelogists say Sumerian plaque dating from around 2400BC may have been looted

The ancient paintings depict close relationships between humans and animals

Until now, there's been little evidence our evolutionary relatives could swim.

The purpose of such an elaborate structure remains a big open question

Researchers lifted the ancient Egyptian mummy out of her coffin for the first time in 100 years and, to their surprise, uncovered the ancient artworks

A three-ply cord fragment made from bark was spotted on a stone tool recovered at a cave in France.

Could ancient bronze weapons really hack it in combat?

Of all the volcanic eruptions to shake our planet in the last 2 million years, the Toba super-eruption in Sumatra, Indonesia, was one of the most colossal. But it may not have been the global catastrophe we once thought it was.

Two hundred years of forced dispossession cannot erase millennia of land ownership and connection to country.

The wagon—and the wagon wheel—could not have been put together in stages. Either it works, or it doesn’t. And it enabled humans to spread rapidly into huge parts of the world.