Think ancient civilizations were primitive? The evidence suggests otherwise.From computers that tracked celestial events to ...

Cheetahs vanished from Saudi Arabia half a century ago. Now long-dead mummified big cats may help herald their return.

Founded, furnished and eventually forgotten – this has been the fate of many cities since ancient times. A few names have stayed alive in legend and literature while others disappeared completely – ...

Iron Age cargoes from Dor reveal how ancient Mediterranean trade evolved alongside shifting empires and political power. New ...

The ruins and relics left behind by ancient civilizations are more than just fragments of stone and metal; they are echoes of human stories that stretch across centuries. Temples overgrown by jungle, ...

SLAC researchers used X-ray beams and the particle accelerator to recover the work of an ancient astronomer, who made the earliest known attempt to log the stars.

Cutting-edge LiDAR technology has revealed an astonishing secret concealed beneath the dense jungle canopy of Ecuador's Andean Chocó: hundreds of pre-Hispanic structures that dramatically expand our ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a long-lost medieval village, thanks to pre-construction excavations for an offshore wind farm project. On Dec. 9, Wessex Archaeology announced its ...

Scientists reveal strong physical evidence for an ancient lost city in Spain, offering fresh insight into a vanished ...

The astonishing discovery has ignited a fierce controversy.

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has been infecting humans for at least 2,500 years. Some people inherited the ...