The history of the planet and the civilizations that have lived on it are among life’s greatest mysteries.People have roamed ...

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Archaeology is meant to help us understand our past. But sometimes it throws up objects that are so unusual, so advanced or so baffling that we can’t be sure what they really are or what they were ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a mysterious Roman-era settlement site in Germany, complete with building remains and hundreds of artifacts dating back nearly two millennia. The Schafbreite site, ...

Tightly-packed urns containing human remains were found on the site [Guard Archaeology] Newly published research has revealed a "mysterious mass burial event" in the south of Scotland about 3,300 ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a surprising 1,400-year-old skull in an ancient village in Mexico — unusual for both its flat top and cube-like shape. Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and ...

An archaeologist recently uncovered the likely remains of a long-forgotten Byzantine settlement, offering new insights into the history of Christianity in the Middle East. Musallam R. Al-Rawahneh, an ...

Certain structures, megaliths, and buried items defy explanation, but there are some crazy theories about them. Let's take a ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the “discovery of the decade” in Oaxaca, Mexico, after 1,400 years. An ancient tomb believed to ...

Whether you board a bus in Vientiane, the modern-day capital of Laos, or its ancient capital of Luang Prabang, it will take at least six hours to reach the Plain of Jars. Located just outside of ...

WAWA, CANADA—For the past seven years, archaeologist Ryan Primrose, director of the Ontario Centre for Archaeological Education, has studied mysterious symbols carved into the bedrock deep in an ...