ancient civilization

The laser precision with which the massive rock was cleaved cleanly in two has left a mystery for scientists—and the internet. "It must be aliens!" the internet resounds. Looking almost ...

As tales of Atlantis have long captured imaginations, a sunken city discovered off the coast of Japan has ...

Bolivia is not usually one of the places that come to mind when you are thinking about where ...

Archaeologists in Cambodia have found medieval cities between 900 and 1,400 years old buried beneath Cambodia's jungle floor. ...

Nan Madol is the only ancient city ever built upon a coral reef. Yet despite the enormity of ...

A new study published in the journal Antiquity has revealed that a number of Bronze Age child skulls ...

Throughout history, humanity has suffered serious setbacks to science, progress, and culture. Some have been on a very ...

Archaeologists from the University of Wrocław have discovered more than 150 ancient graves in the Atacama Desert belonging ...

What makes this 4,000-year-old tablet so unique is the fact that the list blends apparently mythical pre-dynastic rulers ...

A team of archaeologists have discovered twenty-five well preserved quipus, an ancient form of record-keeping used by the ...

Strong evidence that the ancient Celtic Cult of Mithras visited Oklahoma in pre-Columbian history has presented itself over ...

Other nations, including the Vikings, Chinese, and ancient Egyptians, may have visited the Americas hundreds of years before ...

The idea of continents that supported ancient, perhaps even cultured and prosperous people, before they sunk under the ...

CAVALESE, Italy—The year 1492 is one of history's most famous dates, when America was discovered by Europeans. However ...

If you take a look at some of the masonry in South America's megalithic structures and walls, such ...