Archaeology
Two Lost Cities of the Silk Road Lay Buried For Centuries
Archaeologists have mapped two lost cities of the Silk...
Underwater Caves Give Clues About Early Homo Sapiens in Sicily
Underwater caves off the coast of Sicily offer new...
Exploration Mysteries: Did King Solomon’s Mines Really Exist?
In 1934, an archaeologist was digging in the Timna...
Untouched Burial Crypt Found at Site of Indiana Jones Movie
Talk to any archaeologist, and one of the first...
Exploration Mysteries: What Happened to Skara Brae?
Frozen in time, abandoned for 4,500 years, and under...
The 40-Year Battle Over Who Owns the World’s Most Valuable Shipwreck
The Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague will...
DNA Researchers Identify Cannibalized Remains From Lost Franklin Expedition
Another piece of the Franklin Expedition puzzle has dropped...
Asbads: The Original Windmills of the Middle-East
As the Chinese proverb goes, "When the winds of...
We Finally Know Where Humans and Neanderthals Interbred
Archaeologists have long known that humans and Neanderthals interbred,...
Norwegian Vikings Were Even Fiercer Than Danish Vikings
It has long been thought that the Vikings in...
Why Ancient Babylonian Kings Feared Lunar Eclipses
Four recently translated Babylonian tablets give insight into the...
It’s Him: Researchers ID the Bones of the Bishop Who Built the Camino de Santiago
Archaeologists have uncovered the bones of the ninth-century bishop...
Exploration Mysteries: Where Are These Famous Figures Buried?
Despite what proponents of pseudo-archaeology would have you believe,...
‘Shocking’ Study Shows Stonehenge Altar Stone Came From Scotland
A new study has revealed that Stonehenge's six-tonne altar...
The World’s Oldest Calendar Discovered in Turkey
Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest calendar. The ancient...
Hobbit-Sized Humans Once Thrived in Indonesia
One-meter-tall humans? It sounds incredible, something out of a...
Archaeologists Find Pot of Gold Buried for 2,400 Years
A group of Michigan archaeologists working in Turkey found...
Two Victims of Ancient Pompeii Died by Earthquake, Not Volcano
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD has...
Britain’s Ancient Chalk Horse Gets a Facelift
Archaeologists have been restoring the UK's oldest chalk figure,...
Why the Thriving Mississippi Town of Cahokia Disappeared 800 Years Ago
In 1250 AD, a cluster of earthen mounds by...
Mysterious Denisovans Survived on Tibetan Plateau for 160,000 Years
The discovery of bones in a Tibetan cave 3,280m...
