Experts are still puzzling over a basalt stone tablet more than three years after discovering it near Lake Bashplemi in Georgia. According to their recent study published in the Journal of Ancient ...

Researchers believe they’ve discovered that the fish-shaped stones lodged in high-altitude areas were connected to a large ...

SANTA CRUZ — While a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz history professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient artifacts in Syria marked with an alphabetic script whose meaning ...

Egyptian authorities are urgently investigating the disappearance of a 3,000-year-old bracelet, believed to have belonged to Pharaoh Amenemope, from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The artifact vanished ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history. Archaeologists from Egypt and the U.S. unearthed the tomb of ...

“Over here on the right, you see a spaceship landed recently,” he says with a grin. He’s joking. Mostly. But more on that in a minute. We’re in the Urfa plain, a dry, dusty stretch about 25 miles from ...

Professor Suzannah Lipscomb deep dives into some of the greatest death mysteries of the ancient world, as she turns forensic detective and re-examines the final moments of four of ancient history's ...

Today’s mammals are the product of 200 million years of evolution, but scientists aren’t sure exactly how features of modern mammals came to be. A twin pair of studies published in the journal tackles ...

For centuries, astronomers have puzzled over the origins of one of the universe’s oldest and densest stellar systems, known ...

The mystery of 6,000-year-old "dragon stones" placed at high altitudes has been solved as archaeologists have connected them with an "ancient water cult". The prehistoric monuments in the ancient ...