According to research based on historical photographs, the bones may have been preserved millennia before the otherwise oldest-known mummies. According to new research, a group of 8,000-year-old human remains discovered…
Researchers say they've discovered the ruins of the long-lost Temple of Hercules in a shallow channel in the Bay of Cádiz.
Archaeologists working on the Mayan railroad, which will connect many pre-Hispanic sites in the Yucatan Peninsula, discovered a statue of the deity of lightning, Kawiil.
Archaeologists unearth ancient secrets: Sacrificed Mayan skeleton with sacred jade ring found in Mexico.
The Templar Tunnel is an underground corridor in the modern-day Israeli city of Acre. When the town was under the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Knights Templar built…
Located at Point Hope, Alaska, the ruins of Ipiutak offer a glimpse into the past when the city was alive and bustling. Though only ancient artifacts remain, the archaeological and historical value of the site remains immense. The most fascinating part of this site is the unknown origin of the city's builders.
An 1000-year-old woman skeleton found buried in a canoe in southern Argentina, has revealed the first evidence of a prehistoric burial there. The study, which was published in the open-access…
Toumaï is the name given to the first fossil representative of the Sahelanthropus tchadensis species, whose practically complete skull was found in Chad, Central Africa, in 2001. Dated around 7…
Some ancient rock art depicts our ancestors’ purposeful leaving of handprints, providing a permanent mark of their existence. The startling prints discovered on a rock face in Bolivia were unintended…
Encircled by a largely treed area, this anomaly is oval with a conical crater that contains a small ball-like mound in its middle.
