Egypt archaeologists have discovered three ancient tombs containing sarcophagi in the south of the country in a cemetery dating back about 2,000 years. The tombs excavated in the Al-Kamin ...

Giant ramparts guarded Altai Mountains against attack from the north, says leading archeologist Professor Andrey Borodovsky. The wall complex - now almost hidden to the naked eye - is believed to ...

Fast food is often regarded as a modern scourge, one that has made us fatter and ruined family dinners everywhere. But fast food isn’t essentially an American invention. It’s been around since ...

Al Naslaa Rock Formation is a truly giant mystery located  in Tayma oasis, Saudi Arabia. It is perfectly split in half and has curious symbols portrayed on its surface. A very straight crack looks ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a large, centuries-old statue that is believed to have once stood guard over an ancient hospital at Cambodia's world-famous Angkor temple complex. The nearly ...

  An amulet is a small object that a person wears, carries, or offers to a deity because he or she believes that it will magically bestow a particular power or form of protection. The ...

The burial place of a 1,5-year-old boy with a deformed elongated skull was unearthed by archaeologists in Crimea. The scientists immediately dubbed the finding an ‘alien’ due to the unusual structure ...

The shadows of real giants loom throughout mythology and folklore. Almost every culture and society nourishes its tales of huge people who once dominated the earth. Over the last 200 years, since the ...

If we look into Iron Age history in Scandinavia we might find a forceful explanation of why it took so long to Christianise parts of the population in the Nordic areas. Who are the Vikings and what ...

Mummified members of an unknown bygone civilisation are dug from a permafrost necropolis on the edge of the Arctic. The discoveries at the Zeleniy Yar burial site near Salekhard have the potential ...

Many places in the world are devoted to a particular religion but are shaped by another faith. Afghanistan is one such country which sincerely follows Islam, however, before the advent of Islam, the ...

It sounds like Indiana Jones’ adventure, but German researchers say a heavy Buddha statue brought to Europe by the Nazis was carved from a meteorite that likely fell 10,000 years ago along the ...

Is time travel possible? Is it slowly becoming a reality? Why not, if we consider the fact we live in an age when the “wormhole theory” is broadening our horizons  and helping us explore the ...

"The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less" — Socrates Greece was one of the most significant places in the ancient world around ...

An underground tunnel that archaeologists believe was meant to imitate the underworld has been found under a pyramid at Teotihuacan in Mexico. Electrical scans taken at the ancient city revealed the ...