One of ancient Rome’s finest residences, the House of the Griffins, is opening to the public on March 3—with a digital ...

The 5,300-year-old Ötzi the Iceman mummy and a prehistoric man who lived in Siberia 45,000 years ago both carried a ...

The 3,300-year-old tablet was uncovered from the Büklükale ruins near the Kizilirmak River, 60 miles outside of Ankara, ...

The Sein Island submerged stone structures include a football-field-long granite wall off Brittany that dates back more than ...

It is well-known that Pythagoras’ ancient Greek equation for right triangles: a2+ b2= c2 , is older than ancient Greece. We also know that in Khufu’s pyramid the height equals the radius of a circle ...

Found in an elite military hoard, this "once-in-a-lifetime" discovery challenges what we know about Iron Age warfare.

A "princely" grave of a horse buried alongside two people has been discovered by archaeologists working on one of Britain's ...

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him both fame and scorn, has died at age 90. Von Däniken’s representatives announced ...

A team of scholars identified the oldest intentional human cremation, dramatically expanding what archaeologists know about early hunter-gatherer practices.

Discover how recent studies reveal that Saudi Arabia's arid deserts were once lush landscapes filled with rivers and lakes.

Peculiar 60,000-year-old Stone Age arrowheads unearthed in South Africa could be the earliest known use of poison-laced ...

An extraordinary collection of Iron Age objects has been unearthed in West Norfolk. The hoard of metal objects was found ...