Engravings carved into the sandstone near Aswan in Egypt might have been created at the beginning of the First Dynasty and ...

Ancient pyramids over 3,000 miles away from Egypt have been discovered near the village of Wyskoć in Poland's Chłapowski Landscape Park. Known as the "Polish pyramids," the structures are reported to ...

Its strategic location between two important pre-Columbian valleys and the discovery of ceremonial artefacts support the ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered the 1,700-year-old tomb of the earliest known ruler of the ancient Maya city of Caracol. The ...

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented ...

The near-decade-long investigation uncovered 18 structures, including the remnants of temples and residential complexes, ...

In 1972, the Necropolis of Varna in Bulgaria unveiled the world's oldest processed gold, dating back to 4,600–4,200 BC. The ...

AN ANCIENT city that is over 3,500 years old has been unearthed in Peru. The ancient city of Peñico is thought to have been a ...

Researchers believe Peñico served as a trading hub linking ancient Pacific coast communities with those living in the Andes ...

Stepping up to the table, the tourist squinted to make out what lay underneath the dusty glass top. “ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GAME, ...

It wasn’t until the mid-1900s that sunscreens began to look like what we use today. In 1944, Florida pharmacist Benjamin Green began experimenting with cocoa butter and coconut oil, which later became ...