Archaeologists must have one of the coolest jobs ever—as long as a lifetime of digging around in the dirt yields some epic results, like priceless artifacts, treasure-filled tombs, or groundbreaking ...

Scientists have finally taken a deep look inside the massive stones of Sacsayhuamán, and what they found surprised even the experts. Petrographic tests, microscopic imaging, and geophysical scans ...

Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside ...

A steady stream of spiritual pilgrims—mostly women—are drawn to the island’s ancient temples and its museums, home to the ...

Ancient civilizations were dropping technological bombshells long before Silicon Valley existed. Just this year, archaeologists in Turkey uncovered 2,400-year-old tablets containing unknown encryption ...

An ancient Maya structure was likely built around communal astronomical observations, but the identity of a mysterious woman ...

Archaeologists uncovered a carved limestone sculpture of an elderly lord guarding an elite ancient Maya gathering site in Yucatan.

New insights into a pair of colossal, continent-sized structures 1,800 miles beneath the Earth’s surface have revealed clues ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has made a groundbreaking discovery, unearthing a mysterious ancient “Big Red Dot” in the ...

For decades, scientists have been baffled by two enormous, enigmatic structures buried deep inside Earth with features so ...