These could be the earliest discovered spindle whorls, technology that was then seemingly lost for 4000 years.

Ever since the term “Snowball Earth” was first proposed in a 1992 paper, it has prompted substantial debate among scientists.

Loren Munk is unmissable. Dressed in white bespeckled painter’s pants, this 73-year-old artist shambles into New York’s galleries with a slightly crazed look. He walks around with his little camera, ...

From maps and pickaxes, it is now possible to discover ancient relics from a distance, as in the case of a recent find.

Archaeologists have identified the site of an ancient battle in what is now Iraq by comparing historical accounts with ...

In this video, I’ll explore three mysterious maps that defy conventional history and challenge what we know about the ancient world. From the famous Piri Reis map to other lesser-known but equally ...

As part of their survey, researchers examined declassified U.S. spy satellite imagery from the 1970s, which is now in the public domain, and compared the visual data to modern-day photography and ...

The elders also highlighted the imagery of symbolically significant animals, such as anacondas, jaguars, bats and herons, as ...

A map of the night sky created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus was recently discovered at St. Catherine Monastery ...

Cade DuPont, Shaun Bobbitt, Bethany Terry and Rafael Villaroel — is opening a new window on the ancient Roman city of Pompeii.

Homer's Ancient Greek Poem Iliad has inspired a small village in Turkey to install busts of the Trojan war heroes on their ...

This week, uncover the secrets of Pompeii through ancient DNA, meet an adventurous emperor penguin, seek signs of mysterious ...