The unidentified stone idol appeared in the earth as archaeologists excavated an ancient fortress in present-day Armenia.

The mystery of the now-ruined Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan may rest in a lost language scholars said they’ve deciphered.

In a study published in the journal PLOS ONE, Julien Benoit from the University of the Witwatersrand confirmed that the rock ...

Learn how AI trained on modern finger flutings offers a first step toward identifying the makers of prehistoric art and could ...

Two ancient Roman bronze dodecahedrons and an icosahedron (3rd c. AD) in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn, Germany. The dodecahedrons were excavated in Bonn and Frechen-Bachem; the icosahedron in ...

More than two millennia ago, Teotihuacan was a thriving metropolis in central Mexico with up to 125,000 inhabitants. The city ...

Later, a man who said he was an archaeologist stumbled across the treasures and flagged them to one of the thrift shop’s ...

The plague of Akhetaten has long been cited as a possible explanation for the mysterious abandonment of ancient Egypt's short ...

Recent excavations have shed new light on the four circular ditches, which were identified in a field near Rechnitz, Austria, ...