The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

Archeologists say they have finally cracked the 6,000-year-old mystery of Armenia’s “dragon stones" – massive carved ...

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

When an ancient ship was unearthed in Scandinavia over 100 years ago, archaeologists started to uncover bits and pieces of ...

Egypt’s ancient stone vessels display a level of precision that scientists still can’t explain. Their flawless symmetry and ...

After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting ...

Archaeologists have discovered a trove of treasures inside an ancient Egyptian tomb that they said rewrites history by ...

Ancient Chinese astronomers observed a solar eclipse in 709 BCE with remarkable detail. These old records are now helping ...

An international team of researchers has used knowledge of historical geography to reexamine the earliest datable total solar ...