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 ...

The Beşparmak Dağları, known as “Latmos” in antiquity, is one of the most fascinating and archaeologically richest regions in western Turkey. As early as prehistoric times the Latmos was already ...

Beneath the Temple of Feathered Serpent in Teotihuacan, Mexico, and in the Chinese First Emperor's tomb, archaeologists discovered enormous amount of mercury. It is suggested that ancient people ...

Stonehenge is one the UK’s most visited tourist attractions – and one of the world’s most enigmatic ancient monuments. People come from all over the world to stare at the iconic stone pillars and ...

Footprints from the largest dinosaur to have ever existed on Earth have been discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Skye. The fossilized footprints were left by the 170-million-year-old early ...

Buried under layers of sand and mud for almost 14 centuries, the lost city of Adulis is finally returning to light to become the first national archaeological park of Sub-Saharan Africa, an event ...

Russian researchers have analyzed tissue samples from one of the mysterious alien creatures uncovered in Peru last year. The mummy, with an elongated skull and only three fingers, has excited ...

Archaeologists exploring the word's biggest flooded cave in Mexico have discovered ancient human remains at least 9,000 years old and the bones of animals who roamed the earth during the last Ice ...