Scientists have unearthed a remarkable collection of mummified cheetah remains from caves in northern Saudi Arabia. The ...

Ancient civilizations accomplished feats of engineering that continue to challenge modern understanding. Despite advances ...

A young woman buried in China’s Tarim Basin some 2,000 years ago went to the afterlife accompanied by the height of fashion. The woman, who was wrapped in a felt blanket and buried in a coffin ...

This year marks two significant anniversaries for aficionados of Agatha Christie whose books have sold more than 100 million ...

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him both ...

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

Archaeologists in Tønsberg, Norway, found a gold medieval ring set with a blue stone that was meant to promote chastity and ...

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

We might think that everything that is to be discovered from our historical past has been discovered by hard working ...

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

Villagers gathered in large numbers and the local administration brought in JCBs, eventually digging up a pot from a field, ...

New research suggests a comet explosion helped cause ice age extinctions, sudden cooling, and the loss of early human cultures.