Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

A recent study reveals stunning new details about Scandinavia's oldest boat, including a fingerprint preserved in tar and chemical clues pointing to its origins in the Baltic region.

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

New laboratory studies could shed light on a rock containing potential signs of alien life that’s stranded on Mars ...

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

Long before Cleopatra and Hatshepsut, Ankhnespepy II amassed unprecedented political and religious power. Here's how.

The ancient Greeks and Romans built astonishing monuments like the Lighthouse of Alexandria and the Hanging Gardens of ...

What did a vulture-bone flute sound like inside a cave? How about singing inside a tomb? Researchers are bringing ancient ...

Over 2,100 ancient jars can be found scattered through the Xiangkhoang Plateau in Laos, but who made them, and why?

According to the team, that pine pitch is the first major new clue in over a century. When the boat was built, Denmark itself ...

While keeping the long-dead crocodilian intact, McKnight and her team also “virtually” recreated the bronze hook lodged in ...

Rian Johnson’s Knives Out project has always functioned as a sociological barometer disguised as a parlor game. If the inaugural film dissected the curdled ...