Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose bestselling books about the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations ...

High in the Peruvian Andes, a serrated stripe of pits cuts across a barren hillside, so regular and extensive that early ...

Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...

A team of researchers believes they may have cracked one of America’s most enduring legends: Where did the settlers of the Roanoke Colony go? The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was the ...

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Archaeologists shocked as 300-year-old mystery building complex found by complete luck - As the topsoil was stripped back, ...

OVER 300 graves have been discovered at one of the UK’s largest Roman cemetries. Ahead of major road works, a 21-mile stretch ...

A French submarine sunk during World War 2 has finally been found in the waters off the coast of a beautiful Spanish city, ending a search that has gripped historians for more than 80 years. A ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the world’s earliest intentional cremation of an adult human known till date in Malawi, a ...

The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southeastern France. For nearly a century, archaeologists have been perplexed by an enduring enigma: the conspicuous absence of cave paintings in the Levant, including ...

A team of researchers believes they may have cracked one of America's most enduring legends: Where did the settlers of the Roanoke Colony go? The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was the ...

Archaeologists working in Malawi say they have uncovered the world’s earliest known intentional cremation of an adult human, ...