The team will deploy muography - a non-invasive imaging technique that harnesses cosmic rays - to search for hidden chambers within El Castillo pyramid at Chichén Itzá, Mexico. The groundbreaking ...

Across deserts, jungles, and polar ice, new discoveries are quietly stretching the story of civilization further back in time ...

There are few men in history who are known for the great impact they make on the psyche of an entire generation. They have ...

Buried in the desert for roughly 4,500 years, the skeleton of a single Egyptian man has yielded a complete genome that ...

Often archaeologists dig beneath the earth to learn about the past; however, there is another place that holds objects that ...

Ruins of a prehistoric stone wall submerged off the northwest coast of France may be evidence that a sunken city of legend ...

Kunlun culture in China centers on the mythical and sacred Kunlun Mountains, viewed as the "Ancestor of Ten Thousand Mountains," a celestial dwelling for gods like the "Queen Mother of the West," a ...

A museum visit sparked a revelation when a Roman glass cup was turned around and its overlooked markings came into focus.

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Peru is often defined by the mystical ruins of Machu Picchu, but the country holds far more archaeological treasures than ...