On a barren mountain ridge in the Pisco Valley of Peru, a strange pattern of depressions stretches across the landscape. From the air, the formation looks like a massive, serrated spine carved into ...

Few things grip the human imagination quite like a civilization that was once great - building cities, writing laws, trading across continents - and then simply disappeared. Not conquered, not ...

The history of the planet and the civilizations that have lived on it are among life’s greatest mysteries. People have roamed the Earth for thousands of years, and some of the most incredible relics ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Modern science has transformed how we study the past, allowing researchers to extract DNA from ancient bones, map buried cities ...

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What happens when several hundred archaeologists gather in a “glass box” in the desert? It’s an odd kind of question, but this actually occurred last week when experts from all over the planet ...

This ancient artifact holds secrets lost for over a millennium.

A team of researchers believes they may have cracked one of America's most enduring legends: Where did the settlers of the Roanoke Colony go? The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was the ...

LAWRENCE, Kan — On the surface, you might only see weeds, dirt and crops, but in the small town of Cherryvale, Kansas, acres of land could be home to one of the biggest untold murder mysteries in the ...