These ancient structures still stand - but the people who built them remain a mystery that history can’t fully explain.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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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 ...

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