For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo–European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

The recent premiere of the documentary The Mystery of the Lost Pyramid on the Smithsonian Channel has unveiled an ...

SCIENTISTS have finally cracked the ancient mystery of 1,400-year-old "alien rings" rising from the hills which were fuelling a tirade of conspiracy theories. Locals had been puzzled by the series ...

A Roman-era bridge was discovered in the ancient city of Elefsina, west of Athens during works for a suburban railway line.

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient ...

In the modern world of the internet, you have plenty of tools to help you crack ancient scripts. Websites like Omniglot ...

The Herculaneum papyri, buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, constitute one of the few preserved sources of Roman thought.

Million-year-old air preserved in ancient ice holds clues to a mystery that has stumped scientists for decades: Why did the ice ages that once transformed Earth every 40,000 years begin to occur ...

The Pyramid of Giza stands as a powerful symbol of ancient Egypt’s grandeur, drawing millions of visitors each year to marvel ...