Puzzling ancient discoveries and archaeological finds  have a way of captivating the humankind, perhaps because it's just too easy to dream up interesting explanations for how and why things exist. ...

Adventure is a spirit that everyone holds, or had at some point in life. Many people yearn to travel around and experience the wonders that the external world can offer. There are various places you ...

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 ...

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 ...

Russia, country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia, its territory keeps a lot of secrets. There are many mysterious megaliths, stone circles and other ...

Once-great Mayan cities still lie hidden under dense rainforest. To the average American, how this happened is a mystery. Some people say the Aztec nation “disappeared” and blame it even on alien ...

Stone carvings discovered in the Himalayan territory of Kashmir may represent the first ever depiction of a dying star and the oldest sky chart in human history, according to Indian scientists’ ...

Standing at 6718 metres above sea level, Mount Kailash in Tibet is considered sacred by Hindus, Buddhists and Jains. Hindus believe that Lord Shiva, the destroyer of evil, sits in perpetual ...

“In spite of the land's natural drawbacks, they turned Sumer into a veritable Garden of Eden and developed what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man.”  ― Samuel Noah ...

Perfumes have come a long way from their origins. While most contemporary scents are produced from synthetic materials, the original fragrances were a combination of plant or animal products and rich ...

Excavations in the Domuztepe Mound in the southern province of Kahramanmaraş, considered to be the biggest settlement in the era since the usage of the term “Near East,” have unearthed vessels ...

The Anunnaki or “Those of Royal Blood” are considered as immortal gods who once inhabited our earth during the ancient Sumerian times. The word Anunnaki means as “those who Anu sent from heaven to ...

Astronomy is considered to be the most ancient science, although until recently it was not conducted as science for curiosity's sake or for the furthering of human knowledge. Instead, the study of ...

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 ...