The history of the planet and the civilizations that have lived on it are among life’s greatest mysteries.People have roamed ...

Near the equator, the Sun hurries below the horizon in a matter of minutes. Darkness seeps from the surrounding forest. Nearly 10,000 years ago, at the base of a mountain in Africa, people’s shadows ...

An ancient handprint in a cave on an Indonesian island may be the oldest known rock art, created at least 67,800 years ago.

Ancient messages and drawings are among hundreds of inscriptions that archaeologists recently uncovered on a wall in Pompeii.

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...

New research sheds light on one of archaeology’s longest-running debates: how Stonehenge’s massive bluestones reached their ...

High on a dry ridge above Peru’s Pisco Valley, more than 5,000 neat pits march up a hillside in tightly ordered rows. For decades, this so-called Band of Holes fed every possible theory, from water ...

A young woman buried in China’s Tarim Basin some 2,000 years ago went to the afterlife accompanied by the height of fashion. The woman, who was wrapped in a felt blanket and buried in a coffin ...

From a garden at the Holy Sepulchre to new dates for the Dead Sea Scrolls, new research is offering detailed glimpses into biblical stories. The shrine that houses the traditional burial place of ...

A one-foot-wide bronze mask dating to around 1100 b.c. emerges from beneath a bronze vessel containing cowrie shells during recent excavations at the site of Sanxingdui in China’s Sichuan Province.

Trader Joe's "mystery packs" appear to have sold out, again. Not long after the California-based grocery chain unveiled a new canvas Micro Tote, customers began to "unbox" another item, one that sells ...