Workers digging for a new road near Perth, Scotland, uncovered a 2,500-year-old underground stone chamber that ancient people ...

New research suggests that the holes were the site of an ancient marketplace, and Inca rulers may have used them as a ...

JUST one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still stands – with the rest lost to plunder, fire, earthquakes and the ...

It brings them one step closer to understanding the mysteries of the Bashiri Mummy MODERN technology has helped shed further light on an Ancient Egyptian mystery after spending millennia under wraps.

The debate goes back to the 1950s. “I’ve seen the argument raging my entire career,” says 71-year-old James Kasting, a geoscientist at the Pennsylvania State University. The findings are a big deal, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: KriveArt/Getty Images The ancient Egyptians were not the first culture to mummify their ...

Studying how humans produced such objects is challenging because little evidence still exists, and artifacts that have survived are carefully guarded and preserved.

Thanks to modern technology, we know more about the universe now than we have at any other point in history. Even though they didn't know much about it, ancient people were fascinated by the cosmos.

Along the Old Silk Road – the ancient network of trade routes that once linked China and the West – is a complex of roughly 500 rock-cut caves carved into the cliffs above the Daquan River. The caves, ...