Heather McKillop, along with her research team from LSU, excavated the salt kitchens where brine was boiled in clay pots over fires in pole and thatch buildings. The Maya constructed stone temples...
As the inhabitants of an ancient Middle Eastern city now called Tall el-Hammam went about their daily business one day about 3,600 years ago, they had no idea an unseen icy space rock was speeding...
The statuary heads of two Greek gods have been unearthed in an ancient city in western Turkey, according to an archaeologist working at the site. The heads of both Aphrodite, the goddess of love,...
A nearly perfectly intact room that served as a kind of dormitory for enslaved people has been unearthed by archaeologists at the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. The room has three wooden beds, a...
Australian scientists have compared an ancient Greek technique of memorizing data to an even older technique from Aboriginal culture, using students in a rural medical school. The study found that...
Roman statues have been found under the site of a Norman church in Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire, in what experts are calling a 'once in a lifetime' find. Archaeologists for the HS2 railway...
Scientists have revealed the discovery of hundreds of ancient ceremonial sites, many of which belonged to the Maya civilization, hiding in plain sight just underneath the landscape of modern-day...
According to a new study, some of the world's first cities were completely destroyed 4,000 years ago after being exposed to a powerful combination of climate change and unbridled overpopulation....
For him, it was all or nothing. Win or lose everything, wring out your vital force to the end to reach the heights of ambition, otherwise what is the point of living as a second lieutenant. In...
A new scientific book by French writers Michel-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies on the relationship of science to the divine, considered scientific discoveries related to relativity, quantum...
Researchers excavating a cave network on the Rock of Gibraltar have discovered a new chamber, sealed off from the world for at least 40,000 years, that could shed light on the culture and customs of...
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 7,200-year-old skeleton from a female hunter-gatherer in Indonesia that has a "distinct human lineage" never found anywhere in the world, according...
From ancient catacombs, those underground passages in which the dead were buried or their remains and bones were preserved, to the modern subway, humans have always traveled underground for...
Archaeologists have discovered in the ancient ancient city of Teotihuacan near Mexico City in central Mexico, bouquets of plants that are 1800 to 2,000 years old. Quetzalcóatl, or 'Plumed Serpent'...
Researchers have discovered a 51,000-year-old deer bone carved with lines by Neanderthals in the Einhornhöhle (“Unicorn Cave”) in Germany, according to a study published in Nature Ecology &...
Archaeologists in Turkey believe mysterious 3,200 year-old stone carvings are an astronomical map of the cosmos and an ancient calendar.
The Yazılıkaya rock sanctuary in central Turkey, about...
El Castillo in Spain,In caves on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, ancient peoples marked the walls with red and mulberry hand stencils, and painted images of large native mammals...
A strange rock in the shape of a boat was discovered in an Icelandic cave, the Vikings likely used it to stave off the end of the world 1,100 years ago, according to the researchers.The rock was...
Archaeologists have found the oldest home in hominin history. Unsurprisingly, it is a cave: Wonderwerk Cave in the Kalahari Desert. Astonishingly, it has been occupied more or less continuously for...
Metal excavators in Wales have discovered nine priceless artifacts from the Middle Ages onwards, including a gold ring adorned with a spooky-looking skull made of white enamel.After analyzing the...
