The Chincha Islands sit about 13 miles from Peru's shore and contain huge deposits of guano, a nitrogen-rich mix of seabird ...

The engravings and drawings are divided into several groups, researchers learned in their initial study of the space, the ...

Explore mysterious “out-of-place” artifacts inside the Cairo Museum, including precision-cut granite boxes, tube drill holes, ...

At the Aswan granite quarry, the unfinished 1100 ton obelisk sits surrounded by strange vertical scoop marks cut deep into ...

The civilisation’s previously accepted timeline was around 2600 BC, but using radiocarbon dating on pottery fragments and animal remains they have found at the site, Archaeological Survey of India ...

Ancient evidence suggests that Talos, the protector of ancient Crete in Greek mythology, actually represents a remnant of Minoans.

Beneath modern Trabzon, archaeologists uncovered a rare ancient river port linked to the Greek colony of Trapezus. Dating to ...

Everything we know about these famous war animals has come from textual sources, so this is a significant new find.

President Donald Trump is determined to answer a question that has tormented humanity for centuries: do aliens exist?

Why The West Came To Hate Queer Love by Harry Tanner, available now from Bloomsbury Continuum. In the early days of anc ...

High-resolution imaging conducted at USC reveals evidence of chronic pain, dental disease and possible surgical intervention in two ancient priests.

Researchers have identified what may be the earliest known metal drill from ancient Egypt-and it was hidden in plain sight.