Some ancient discoveries are so strange they should not exist at all. From impossible tools and mysterious maps to books no one can read, these artifacts defy logic, rewrite history, and leave ...

The new report comes as many world leaders prepare for the U.N.'s COP30 climate summit in Brazil next week — for reference ...

Just over a century ago today, British archaeologists discovered the entrance to the Ancient Egyptian monarch’s tomb … ...

While excavating in the Valley of the Kings, an Egyptian worker on an archaeological dig discovered a partially obscured step ...

Chinese magic mirrors are these mind-boggling artifacts that have been around for centuries. Basically, they're made of ...

Artist’s impression of the Milky Way, based on data from Gaia spacecraft. Credit: European Space Agency / CC BY-SA 3.0 A mysterious gamma-ray glow at the heart of the Milky Way is challenging ...

FILE - Pope Francis dons a headdress during a visit with Indigenous peoples at Maskwaci, the former Ermineskin Residential School, July 25, 2022, in Maskwacis, Alberta.

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican is expected to soon announce that it will return a few dozen artifacts sought by Indigenous communities in Canada as part of its reckoning with the Catholic Church’s ...

Abstract: Structured artifacts are semi-regular, repetitive patterns that closely intertwine with genuine image content, making their removal highly challenging. In this paper, we introduce the ...

An archaeologist is piecing together what the V-shaped stone structures—some stretching 500 feet long—were used for. Two chacu hunting traps are seen from the air. The V-shaped hunting traps were used ...

Tom Metcalfe is a freelance journalist and regular Live Science contributor who is based in London in the United Kingdom. Tom writes mainly about science, space, archaeology, the Earth and the oceans.

In Japan, a graveyard has been unearthed in the heart of Osaka City. The Japanese burial ground is believed to have been an important historic graveyard that dates back several hundred years. The ...