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 ...

The Amazon rainforest is a repository of ecological services for both the local tribes and the rest of the world. It is the single largest remaining tropical rainforest in the world and houses almost ...

Our fascination with ancient civilisations and the ancient past causes us to dig, often deep into the Earth, to see what’s been concealed for centuries by the elements, hidden by lava or buried under ...

“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace till the last syllable of recorded time. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle! ...

Archaeologists have discovered fragments of different carved skulls in Turkey’s one of the most important Neolithic sites. These decorated deeply chiseled human craniums are first of their kinds in ...