Digital visualization of Templo Mayor prior to destruction. Templo Mayor plaza viewed from the Temple of the Sun. Digital images now provide...

El Castillo possibly a temple to the Mayan rain god Chaac. Researchers are speculating that the Mayans constructed some of Mexico’s ancient ...

Sample of the huge stash of Anglo-Saxon precious-metal objects. Terry Herbert’s spectacular find with a metal detector of the largest known ...

The longstanding belief of an ancient division between India’s Aryan and Dravidian populations ~ essentially a north-south separation ~ has ...

Painting from Pech-Merle in France showing several hand prints. Much more Stone Age cave art seems to be the creation of women artists th...

The stone mug with its inexplicable carvings. Ten lines of script carved into a 2,000-year-old stone mug found on Mount Zion are mystifying ...

Little Red Riding Hood by Fleury Francois Richard (1777-1852) It has long been known that popular fairy tales frequently had ancient origins...

Karnak temple hieroglyphs. Temples in ancient Egypt were aligned so precisely with astronomical events that people could set their political...

Gilded mask found beside the tomb of the elite male. Archaeologists were surprised recently to unearth the remains of a male buried among a ...

Three of the 2,000 figures unearthed so far in Catalhoyuk. Stone Age statues carved from stone and clay 9,000 years ago could have been the ...

A team of archaeologists and paleobiologists has discovered flax fibers that are more than 34,000 years old, making them the oldest fibers k...

The seven-branched menorah is carved at the base of this stone . Israeli archaeologists have uncovered one of the earliest depictions of a m...