Mummy Juanita, also known as the Inca Ice Maiden, is a well-preserved mummy of a young girl who was sacrificed by the Inca people more than 500 years ago.
Archaeologists have found evidence of brain surgery being conducted during the Late Bronze Age, which provides insights into the history and evolution of medical practices.
To find such an axe in the hands of a Minoan woman would suggest strongly that she held a powerful position within the Minoan culture.
Giant skeletons found; archaeologists sent expedition to explore graveyards in New Mexico where bodies were unearthed.
At 4,000 km upriver you reach the foothills of the Andes in Peru, and there lived the people of the Chachapoya, also famed as "The Warriors of the Clouds."
Encircled by a largely treed area, this anomaly is oval with a conical crater that contains a small ball-like mound in its middle.
Since their discovery in the 1930s, the mysterious collections of giant stone jars scattered throughout central Laos have remained one of the great prehistoric puzzles of south-east Asia. It is thought that the jars represent the mortuary remains of an extensive and powerful Iron Age culture.
Unearthed among the rare findings by the famous Teotihuacan site in Mexico, the mask stands out for its simplicity.
Over the past couple of years, gigantic humanoid underwater creatures have been spotted in the deep icy waters of Antarctica.
The Judaculla Rock is a sacred site for the Cherokee people and is said to be the work of the Slant-Eyed Giant, a mythological figure who once roamed the land.