Unakoti, also known as Subrai Khung, rises quietly from the forested hills of Tripura as one of India’s most enigmatic ...

A sticky residue discovered inside bronze jars at an ancient Greek shrine in southern Italy has been conclusively identified, ...

A faded label suggested the bones had been unearthed at the nearby Beachy Head cliffs sometime in the 1950s, though specific details of the original excavation had been lost to time. What followed was ...

Sahura sits amongst the Abusir complex, a popular burial site near the Nile River for pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty of ...

Stories of ancient giants appear repeatedly in Native oral traditions, early explorer accounts, and 19th-century newspapers.

Where these sea raiders might have come from, and why they attacked the island of Als has long been a mystery.” ...

Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental.

In the unique landscape of Sardinia, dotting hills and valleys, rise mysterious stone constructions that have defied time and ...

“It should be emphasized that it was on Ostrów Lednicki that the oldest Christian liturgical objects ever found in Poland ...

Scientists have now re-examined the 2000-year-old skeleton and its DNA with new techniques. Dr William Marsh, one of our ...

These Anglo-Saxon accessories were recovered from the side of a hill in England and may be from a hoard, a ritual deposit or ...

Scientists investigating an ancient mystery have uncovered the first evidence that a Bronze Age strain of plague infected livestock, not just humans. During the Middle Ages, a devastating outbreak of ...