Fresh discoveries at a 12,000-year-old site in Turkey called Karahan Tepe, the possible earliest village in human history, have uncovered more carved human faces, animal sculptures, and new…

For 2,500 years, ancient writers described a paradise beyond the north wind called Hyperborea, home to giants who lived 1,000 years without war or disease. Mainstream historians wrote…

Filippo Biondi and his team used satellite-based Synthetic Aperture Radar to scan the Giza Plateau and say they found a buried structure matching the Sphinx’s profile beneath a…

A new metagenomic study from the University of Padova has found that nearly 40 percent of the human genetic material on Christianity’s most contested relic traces back to…

In 1933, a Mexican archaeologist named José García Payón was excavating a burial site in the Toluca Valley — about 65 kilometers northwest of what is now Mexico…

Archaeologists digging beneath a construction site in Rome have uncovered a section of the city’s oldest burial road — and found inside it a funerary ritual that suggests…

Science just quietly closed one chapter of the Stonehenge mystery — and opened a far stranger one. For over a century, one of the competing theories to explain…