ARCHAEOLOGY

Egyptian antiquities officials on Saturday announced the discovery of at least 100 ancient coffins, some with mummies inside, and around 40 gilded statues in a vast Pharaonic necropolis south of Cairo.

Five American troops were killed aboard a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter that crashed on Tiran Island off the southern coast of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula earlier Thursday, Fox News has confirmed.

A sword from the defense of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812. A stopped wristwatch recovered from the wrecked E-Ring of the Pentagon on the Sept. 11 attacks. The Sherman tank that first broke through enemy lines at the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.

There is something obscene and repulsive about American businesses having to board up store windows on the eve of an election because they know their government cannot protect them from anti-American barbarians and thugs.

Archaeologists in Spain are continuing their search for the missing bones of “Red Hugh,” a 16th-century Irish chieftain who is said to be buried in the city of Valladolid.

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of 300-year-old slave quarters at a historic plantation in Southern Maryland.

A letter written on the Titanic by a hero pastor who died in the ship’s sinking is up for auction in the U.K.

The fate of a Christopher Columbus statue in Pittsburgh has potentially been decided after a city art commission vote this week.

USS Oklahoma sailor Warren Crim, who was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, has been laid to rest in his Tennessee hometown.

A 115-year-old Confederate monument that was the subject of protests in Alabama this year was removed from outside a county courthouse early Friday.