A skeleton that was found in Poland close to Kraków and is estimated to be 7,000 years old may have belonged to a Neolithic farmer.
Archaeologists using genetic testing have proven that Caucasians roamed China's Tarim Basin thousands of years before East Asian people arrived.
Researchers describe genomes from ten individuals up to 7,500 years old that help to show gene flow from people moving in the opposite direction from North America to North Asia.
Amateur archaeologist Sam Osmanagić made headlines in 2008 with his adamant claims that the world’s oldest and largest pyramids are actually in Bosnia, near the city of Visoko. He insisted that they were built 12,000 years ago by an advanced ancient society, and his stories about them became increasingly more abstract in the following years.
The find of the tomb beneath the coastal city of Alexandria dates back 2,000 years and has puzzled archaeologists.
Atlit-Yam appears to be a one-phase settlement, representing a short period of occupation before the encroachment of the sea that led to Atlit-Yam being abandoned around 6300 BC.
The famed lost city of Atlantis may have been found in a rather unlikely place — the Sahara Desert.
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.
A cavern in Israel is the source of both legendary tales and factual accounts, and it has now been discovered to be a "portal to the underworld".
How did the ancient Egyptians look like 2,000 years ago? Did they have dark skin and curly hair? A Virginia-based laboratory has successfully recreated the faces of three mummies using their DNA.