Scientists have now re-examined the 2000-year-old skeleton and its DNA with new techniques. Dr William Marsh, one of our scientists who analysed the DNA, says that it’s now more likely that the Beachy ...

Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ...

The newly excavated 4,500-year-old valley temple from ancient Egypt holds a "public calendar" and a roof for astronomical ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Advanced scanning technology has revealed strange underground anomalies at the site of Egypt’s legendary labyrinth.

These out-of-place artifacts, or OOPArts, are surprising for their place and time — but there's an explanation behind each ...

In the fourth century BCE, mysterious raiders attacked a Danish island. Now we might finally know where they came from.

When an ancient ship was unearthed in Scandinavia over 100 years ago, archaeologists started to uncover bits and pieces of ...

There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...