Long before the Black Death killed millions across Europe in the Middle Ages, an earlier, more elusive version of the plague spread across much of Eurasia. For years, scientists were unsure how the ...

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

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A long-standing archaeological puzzle has been solved, thanks to cutting-edge chemical analysis techniques. In 1954, eight bronze jars were discovered in the ancient city of Paestum in southern Italy, ...

The mystery of how the Ancient Egyptian pyramids has been reignited by the death of a Swiss author, who famously argued that ...

A treasure trove of 225 funerary figurines has been discovered inside a tomb in the ancient Egyptian capital of Tanis in the Nile Delta, a rare find that experts say has also solved a "long-standing ...

STONEHENGE? THAT’S A GREAT QUESTION. WE’RE STILL TRYING TO FIGURE THAT OUT TODAY. AFTER ABOUT 90 YEARS OF RESEARCH, MY FAMILY GOT INVOLVED WITH US BACK IN 1955. SO IT’S BEEN A BEEN A LONG ROAD ON THIS ...

A multitude of mysteries remain unsolved about the ancient Greek world, providing more questions than answers.

(CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered primitive sharp-edged stone tools on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, adding another piece to an evolutionary puzzle involving mysterious ancient humans who ...