An algorithm sifted deserts of data to spot what human eyes missed. Two sentences later, the Nazca Lines feel less like legend—and more like a living ... Continue Reading → ...

Long before the Europeans arrived in Angkor, a Chinese explorer had documented the magnificence of modern Cambodia’s ancient ...

Archaeologists have uncovered hundreds of mysterious stone formations hidden in one of the most extreme environments on Earth ...

10) Dropa Stones: The Dropa (or Dzopa) stones are part of a controversial and widely regarded as mythical story that blends ...

The Dadiwan Culture, a key representative of China's Neolithic period in the Yellow River Basin and considered one of the ...

A routine fire patrol, operating some 200 miles northwest of the country's capital, Astana, discovered a nearly foot-long ...

Polish researchers have identified a marble portrait found in 2003 as Laodice, a 2nd century aristocrat who helped her city ...

Archaeologists found a 1,600-year-old coin hoard dating to the final Jewish revolt against Romans. Archaeologists have ...

The ancient Egyptians didn't want tomb robbers to pilfer treasures in the pyramids, so how did they stop thieves?

As part of the research project Metals & Giants, an international team of scholars has provided new insights into the Bronze Age metal trade. During the Bronze Age, the Nuraghe culture thrived in ...

Venturing into an Etruscan tomb once meant crawling through rubble, breathing dust, and crawling into rooms excavated more ...

The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm.