Satellite imagery has uncovered 76 elaborate stone hunting traps and hundreds of previously unknown settlements in the Andean highlands of northern Chile, revealing that hunting and foraging remained ...

During the Second World War a brooch inscribed with ancient Norse runes (letters) was discovered in a field at Værløse Airfield in Denmark telling a sinister story of the Nazi’s efforts to abuse ...

The Museo del Oro (Museum of Gold) in Bogota, Colombia displays the biggest, and one of the most important, collections of pre-Hispanic metallurgy in the world. The museum has a stunning collection of ...

There are undoubtedly millions of amazing artifacts from the ancient world that have served to shed light on the lives of our ancestors from many millennia ago. But some stand out for their uniqueness ...

Lying on the northern outskirts of the city of Cusco in Peru, lies the walled complex of Saksaywaman (Sacsayhuaman). The site is famed for its remarkable large dry stone walls with boulders carefully ...

The Shepherd's Monument, located in the gardens of Shugborough Hall, has been the subject of fascination and speculation since its creation in the 18th century. Although its primary function is as a ...

There are arguably few ancient thinkers as influential in their domains as Socrates, Aristotle, and Confucius. Emerging from different cultures or epochs in time, these three remarkable teachers ...

This is the account of the discovery of a skull that has the potential to change what we know about human evolution, and a suppression and cover-up which followed. In 1959, in an area called ...

The results of a DNA analysis of one of the skulls are now back, and Brien Foerster, author of more than ten books and an authority on the ancient elongated headed people of South America, has just ...

From mysterious artifacts to unusual burial practices, here are 10 of the strangest archaeological facts ever uncovered! 1. The Ancient Egyptians Used Honey to Treat Wounds Over 4,000 years ago, ...

Southeastern Turkey, 12,000 years ago. At this point in time, at least according to our most current understanding, hunter-gatherers moved across the land, hunting suddenly extinct beasts such as the ...

Ian Towle & Luca Fiorenza/The Conversation For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibers, or ...