Unearthed in an alabaster quarry, the ramp may have been used by the builders of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
The unnerving statues, which date back 800 years, were unearthed in the ruins of the ancient city of Chan Chan.
Archaeologists have discovered a tunnel and chamber hidden beneath the 2,000-year-old Pyramid of the Moon.
The wreck of a wooden vessel dating back 2,400 years has been found at the bottom of the Black Sea.
The 900-year-old trinket was unearthed at the site of a Viking farmstead in Iceland's Thjorsardalur valley.
Experts in London have been attempting to decipher the writing on an ancient stone found in the 19th century.
The skeletal remains of a child with a stone in its mouth point to an ancient form of ritualistic vampire burial.
Scientists have come up with a possible new explanation for the positions of the island's stone statues.
Saga Vanecek discovered the pre-Viking-era relic while swimming near her family's holiday home in Sweden.
Archaeologists have discovered what could be the first hard evidence of the Israelite Exodus from Egypt.
Traces of beer dating back more than 13,000 years have been found in a cave near the Israeli city of Haifa.
Archaeologists have discovered more than 800 tombs in an ancient necropolis outside of the village of Lisht.
Archaeologists in Italy have unearthed a broken soapstone amphora containing hundreds of gold coins.
The discovery of ancient cheese sieves has pushed back the origins of cheese making in the Mediterranean.
A Mayan pictographic text dating back over 900 years has finally been confirmed as authentic by researchers.
Scientists have started to slowly unravel the mystery of three skeletons found buried in a massive granite coffin.
A strange white substance found inside a broken jar from an ancient tomb has turned out to be cheese.
Construction workers have unearthed what is thought to be a second Sphinx near the Valley of the Kings.
Scientists are more certain than ever that a massive drought caused the Mayan civilization to collapse.
Scientists in Russia have discovered a rather unusual property of Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza.