A recent study of a mummified "mermaid" discovered in a Japanese shrine has revealed its true composition, and it is not what scientists expected.
These days, most receipts are made of paper, but about 2,000 years ago, an important financial record was recorded on a much heavier material: stone.
Archaeologists have discovered a cache of Roman swords deposited in a cave in the Judean Desert.
According to a study, the purported remains of Sa-Nakht, an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, could potentially be the most ancient documented instance of a gigantic human.
The figurine dates to the Neolithic period, when ancient people first started to develop farming communities in Italy.
Archaeologists have uncovered the head from a marble statue during excavations in Rome’s Piazza Augusto Imperatore near the corner of Via di Ripetta along the Tiber.
According to the scientists, A secret world of animals and plants – including unknown species – might live in warm caves under Antarctica's glaciers.
Evidence of a naval engagement from the Crusades has been discovered in the form of a medieval sword located off Israel's Hof HaCarmel coast, which has been estimated to have been lost approximately 900 years ago.
The latest evidence from Tam Pà Ling cave in northern Laos demonstrates beyond doubt that modern humans spread from Africa through Arabia and to Asia much earlier than previously thought.
Archaeologists from the Eurasian National University (ENU) have uncovered a pyramidal structure at the Kyrykungir archaeological site.