A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

A metal detectorist in Norway recently found a striking depiction of Jesus Christ in a grassy meadow — a gilded figure that ...

Ancient 4,500-year-old Egyptian pyramid could be home to a secret doorway ...

As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté ...

The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

A young woman buried in China’s Tarim Basin some 2,000 years ago went to the afterlife accompanied by the height of fashion. The woman, who was wrapped in a felt blanket and buried in a coffin ...

A volunteer, digging near the cold stone of Hadrian’s Wall, made a startling discovery: an ancient silver ring featuring a delicately carved intaglio. The find pulls the curtain back on the lives of ...

Poverty Point, a 3,500-year-old earthen mound, is a well-researched UNESCO World Heritage Site, but a pair of studies ...

With an opposable big toe resembling a human thumb, the fossilized Burtele foot suggested its owner was a skilled climber, ...

At the oasis of Qurayyah in northwestern Saudi Arabia, archaeologists have discovered the earliest evidence that people burned a particular plant known for its medicinal and psychoactive properties. A ...

For decades, a sealed basement room sat untouched beneath an unremarkable building, its existence known to only a few and its ...