Thirteen fossil bones and teeth excavated in a cave in the Philippines represent an enigmatic previously unknown human species, probably small in stature and possessing an unexpected mix of archaic ...

Group of archaeologists in China have discovered a kind of alcoholic liquid, which they have named the "immortality potion", in a 2,000-year-old bronze jug buried in an ancient tomb during excavation ...

One of the wonders of the world and the best-known prehistoric monument in Europe, Stonehenge, consists of a ring of standing stones, each about 4 metres high, 2.1 metres wide and weighing around ...

Our planet is full of ancient sites that modern archeology still can not satisfactorily explain. These breathtaking and mysterious ancient buildings and structures defy our ability to explain who ...

Ancient Bible believed to be 1,200 years old was found in southeastern Turkey's Diyarbakır province. According to the Turkish authorities, local gendarmerie received intel that someone was looking ...

Mexican experts have found the first temple of the Flayed god, a pre-Hispanic fertility deity depicted as a skinned human corpse. What is Flayed god? The great god Xipe Totec, otherwise known as ...

From its inception, ancient Egypt was defined by its religious beliefs. Worship of all powerful deities was part of the daily life, and ancient Egyptians believed that when they died they would enjoy ...

There are few mysteriously formed stone balls known from around the globe. Where in the world did these spheres come from? Or did they even come from this world? Ancient civilizations have endowed ...

What landed here - a UFO or a meteorite? This 40 meter high geological formation was never thoroughly investigated until the 2000s but Russian scientists seem to have found an explanation. A ...

Previously hidden archaeological sites have emerged in fields across Britain after the hot, dry summer exposed some of new cropmarks. Aerial photographs have exposed patterns which reveal the ...

Scientists say that cremated remains may hold the key to unlocking the truth behind England’s greatest mystery: who built Stonehenge? New studies on the cremated remains of 25 Neolithic people ...

A farmer in central Yozgat province has found a fossilized jaw bone, which is thought to belong to an 8-million-year-old mammoth. Speaking to reporters, Hasan Şenyurt, director of Yozgat Museum, ...

An 11-year-old boy in the village of Yakutia has discovered a 1,000-year-old message on a pendant that was carved into a mammoth bone with Turkic runic inscriptions. The four mysterious words are ...

Archaeologists using drones have discovered more than 25 geoglyphs etched into a swath of coastal desert in southern Peru, and they are likely much older than the famous Nasca lines. Most of the ...

The practice of excavating clusters of rooms or niches into the sides of cliffs and mountains to create cave temples originated in India and spread with Buddhism via Central Asia to China.  Buddhist ...