A recent study claimed Gunung Padang in Indonesia is a 25,000-year-old pyramid. This challenged established timelines of ...

From Roman curse tablets to severed heads on Iberian walls and a decapitated bog body in Ireland—these are the most chilling ...

A new study shows ancient Egyptians made bronze stronger with speiss, changing what experts knew about early metalworking ...

A rare trapdoor spider, Aptostichus ramirezae, discovered in Iran, features a tail-like appendage, a trait thought extinct ...

Archaeologists have made a number of historic discoveries while excavating the ancient Greek City of Laodicea, which housed a ...

As ice continues to melt, more ancient artifacts are likely to surface after lying dormant for centuries. While there are valuable lessons to be learned from their emergence, they are also reminders ...

Imagine digging into a quiet village field and finding signs of a whole city that existed more than 2,000 years ago. That’s what happened in Keeladi — a small village near Madurai that is now ...

When you think of ancient Egypt, you might imagine towering pyramids, majestic temples, and the noseless Great Sphinx of Giza ...

Water discoveries in space happen all the time. But this one’s actually a big deal, and not just because some scientists got excited (though they absolutely did). NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory ...

The carriage workshop, which also had evidence of fixing horseshoes, offered services to travelers in the first century C.E.

Researchers have developed a novel application of histological staining to screen for ancient proteins in situ—within the ...

Scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed a new way to investigate dark matter by studying faint radio waves from the Universe’s earliest era, known as the cosmic dark ages. Their research ...