Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers ...

CUDDALORE: Ancient artefacts, including an anjanakol (a stick used by women in ancient times to apply eye kajal) and circular ...

Italian archaeologists, working with Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Directorate of Archaeology, have discovered eight new ...

Like so many critical ice formations worldwide, Norway's glaciers are melting at an alarming rate as global temperatures ...

From Roman curse tablets to severed heads on Iberian walls and a decapitated bog body in Ireland—these are the most chilling ...

A new study shows ancient Egyptians made bronze stronger with speiss, changing what experts knew about early metalworking ...

New research reveals Teotihuacan’s sacred mountain held 34 stone monuments linked to storm gods and ancient calendrical ...

The past three centuries of sporadic excavations at the grand houses of Pompeii have largely remained at eye level. And for ...

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the ...

Archaeologists have recently proposed that the Gunung Padang site in Indonesia, long considered the world’s oldest pyramid, ...

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans ...