A giant temple to the Aztec god of the wind and a court where the Aztecs played a deadly ball game have been discovered in the heart of Mexico City. Archaeologists unveiled the rare finds ...

Having been used by numerous civilizations to preserve the body after death, the technique of mummification was also practiced in Anatolia. Although different from the one in ancient Egypt, embalming ...

An ancient underground city with 52 chambers has been discovered in Turkey's central Kayseri province after shepherds and local residents informed authorities about a cave in the area, reports said ...

According to Dr. Enrico Mattievich, a retired professor of physics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in Brazil, Hesiod's description of a place matches the mysterious labyrinth ...

Have you ever wondered to walk though the city of the dead? Well, now you have a chance - a 1,500-year-old gallery grave in the ancient city of Dara, located 30 km southeast of Mardin, was opened to ...

About 600 kilometers north of Peru, an imposing earthen mound looms over the sea. People began building the ceremonial structure, called Huaca Prieta, about 7,800 years ago. But according to a new ...

There are a lot of theories over mysterious 1,300-year-old fortress-like structure located on island in middle of lake. With its island location and towering square walls that were once ...

About a third of the way to North America across the Atlantic, 1,000 miles off the coast of Europe, is the  Azores archipelago. The Azores Islands belonging to Portugal, were officially recorded as ...

Ancient Padmanabhaswamy Temple has long been shrouded in mystery. According to an ancient legend, there is a curse on those who defile the sacred site. In the 1930s, treasure hunters tried to open ...

A weird medieval 'dancing skeleton' has been unearthed in Russian Far East, and amazed archeologists by his pose. The 'Dark Ages dancer' is believed to have been aged around 30 when he died between ...

When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the ...

Archeologists came to decision that the best way to preserve the remains of a nearly 5,000-year-old ancient city in Pakistan is to bury it. In 1920, a team of archeologists found a flint in Pakistan ...

There is an otherworldly collection of sheet-gold masks, in The National Museum in Quito, Ecuador, representing the Andean sun god Inti. Most of the Inti masks were crafted by the La Tolita culture, ...

Have you ever thought what is the meaning of putting coins under foundation stone? Items  buried in the foundations of the house  were of two kinds: religious or superstitious, but how far this ...

The various treasures  discovered recently in China could rewrite the early history of this ancient civilization and even challenge ideas about the evolution of modern humans. The latest finding ...