Underwater archaeologists made an extremely rare discovery at the world-famous Antikythera shipwreck site in Greece—the 2,000-year-old remains of ...

Ancient Origins investigates artifacts in Ecuador that could provide evidence of unknown civilizations, connections between America and Sumeria, ...

New evidence supports controversial claims made by Egypt's tourism minister.

Investigators have found what is believed to be a Roman shipwreck of the coast of Canada, suggesting the ...

Heinrich Himmler personally supervised the hunt for the treasure ripped from Rome when the Visigoth King Alaric sacked ...

Kongo Gumi survived the ups and downs of 1,400 years, but collapsed during Japan's economic downtown in 2006.

An archaeological team excavating an ancient center of the Hittite civilization in Turkey has recreated a 4,000-year-old Hittite ...

Talk of a maze of underground tunnels beneath the Colonial city of Puebla in Mexico has long been ...

Pitcairn Island is a place so remote, and with a history so bizarre, that until recently it was ...

What connection did the child have to this prominent bishop?

The oldest known crown in the world, strangely decorated with vultures and doorways, was found among objects like ...

A triceratops brow horn discovered in Dawson County, Mont., has been controversially dated to around 33,500 years, challenging ...

Archaeologists in Cyprus have unearthed a 1,500-year-old amulet in the ancient city of Nea Paphos in Cyprus, which ...

Amateur treasure hunters struck it rich when they unearthed a massive hoard of more than 5,000 silver coins ...

A New Year's resolution is a tradition, most common in the West but found around the world, in ...

Mixed in with the reality of impressive tombs in China, is a legend of an enormous 1,000-foot white, ...

The abandoned fort of Bhangarh is thought to be the most haunted place in India, so much so ...

An object pulled up by a plow in a field and used to prop open an office door ...

A pigment created by the Chinese some 2,500 years ago has the ability to emit powerful rays of ...

The Children of Woolpit is an account dating back to the 12th century, which tells of two children ...

Over 1,000 years ago, a practice was pioneered by a Japanese priest named Kukai, which was intended to ...

According to local tradition, the fall of the Aksumite kingdom of Ethiopia toward the end of the 10th ...

A new study has revealed evidence that gladiators drank a beverage made from plant ash, vinegar, and water.

Forensic geologist, Scott Wolter, has put forward a radical new theory concerning a set of three inscribed stones ...

A Bulgarian born farmer claims to have found a box, chained shut, containing a werewolf-like skull while ploughing ...

The Phaistos Disc is a fired clay plate from the 2nd millennium BC with both sides showing a ...

People may have been making their way from Easter Island to the Americas well before the Dutch commander ...