The story of Phidippides and Pan, the god of the wild, stands as the most baffling episode of the Ancient Greek world—one of ...

Across the northern reaches of North America, archaeologists keep uncovering traces of an ancient people who lived partly ...

Stonehenge is a mysterious prehistoric monument in England, known for its massive stone circles. It was built around 5,000 ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza has been studied for centuries, yet new technology is now hinting that one of its oldest mysteries may still be hidden in plain sight. Fresh scans of the 4,500-year-old ...

A newly detected underground feature at the Ness of Brodgar has surprised archaeologists, revealing a mysterious anomaly that could ...

When a powerful earthquake struck Myanmar on March 28, it didn't just jolt the earth, it peeled back history. As the 7.7-magnitude tremor split the ground open in Tada-U Township, it revealed a ...

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JUST one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still stands – with the rest lost to plunder, fire, earthquakes and the mysteries of time. Here’s what really happened to those lost wonders, and ...

The archaeologists that found the stone-paved chamber, located inside a hilltop fort in Scotland, still aren’t sure exactly what its purpose was.

Indiana Jones wannabes, your time has come. A local government in India is offering a $1 million prize to the first person who cracks the code of an ancient script found in the ruins of one of the ...

Even with all the advances we have made with technology, we still don’t know everything that happened in history. Isn’t it fascinating that almost every day, historians are making discoveries about ...