Archaeologists are investigating islands around Britain in an attempt to settle debate about why the isles’ hunter-gatherers converted to f...

The submerged city likely predates the ruins of Troy. An archeological team has discovered a trove of ceramics and pottery estima...

Some of the wheels in Jordan's desert. Thousands of mysterious ancient “geoglyphs” ~ similar in construction to Peru’s famous Nazca lin...

Machu Picchu as Bingham first encountered it in 1911. From Slate.com When the Yale University history lecturer Hiram Bingham III encountered...

Curators and scholars continue to puzzle over an 11-inch-high burial figure that appears to be seated in a side-saddle position with a cloth...

"Priestess of Delphi," 1891, John Collier. Oracles in ancient Greece relied greatly on natural phenomena ~ sounds, smells, the ru...

Artist's rendition of Cahokian settlement. Researchers have employed 600-year-old metalworking techniques to gain a better understand...

A cooperative effort of the Peruvian government and the Global Heritage Fund aims to conserve and restore the mysterious ancient site of ...

How agriculture reached Europe from its origins in the Middle East some 11,000 years ago has remained a tantalizing mystery for scientists....

Homo erectus models from Kenya National Museum. Scientists are questioning the long-held belief that early humans migrated solely from Afri...

A tenacious theory that explained the disappearance of the Clovis people ~ arguably North America’s first humans ~ is being strongly disp...

Genetic evidence is proving that South Americans helped settled Easter Island ~ one of the most remote islands in the world ~ centuries b...