Archeologists say they have finally cracked the 6,000-year-old mystery of Armenia’s “dragon stones" – massive carved ...

Stonehenge has long fueled fringe claims about giants, giant skeletons, and even Tower of Babel origins. Modern believers ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

When an ancient ship was unearthed in Scandinavia over 100 years ago, archaeologists started to uncover bits and pieces of ...

After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

The male ruler of Ireland's fairy folk appears in many guises throughout folklore including the benevolent Finvarra and the ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Millennia of human history have seen many years of scarcity, famine, plague, and war. A new wave of research by historians ...

Archaeologists recently found the lost ruins of a ceremonial temple—covered in sand and 4,000 to 5,000 years old—in ...

These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

A Roman treasure hoard melted in a fire 1,800 years ago has been found in Histria, revealing jewelry, coins, and the life of ...