These ancient structures still stand - but the people who built them remain a mystery that history can’t fully explain.

Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...

High in the Peruvian Andes, a serrated stripe of pits cuts across a barren hillside, so regular and extensive that early ...

OVER 300 graves have been discovered at one of the UK’s largest Roman cemetries. Ahead of major road works, a 21-mile stretch ...

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A French submarine sunk during World War 2 has finally been found in the waters off the coast of a beautiful Spanish city, ending a search that has gripped historians for more than 80 years. A ...

A remarkable archaeological discovery has recently come to light. A holy box, hidden deep in the earth for millennia, has been unearthed. This box, with its unknown contents and mysterious origins, ...

Research has yielded fascinating new insights into a Stone Age burial site in Sweden where archaeologists have documented a mysterious set of human remains. The grave in question is a dolmen, a type ...

Scientists have unearthed a remarkable collection of mummified cheetah remains from caves in northern Saudi Arabia. The ...

A remarkable archaeological find has been hailed as 'proof' that Noah's Ark really did exist. New research at the Durupınar geological site in eastern Turkey - a boat-shaped mound long claimed to be ...

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him both ...