According to ancient Greek texts, this was a land of eternal spring, inhabited by a race of giants who lived for a thousand years without disease or war. They called it Hyperborea, a realm existing ...

Recent findings suggest that the Great Pyramid of Giza could be far older than we ever imagined, potentially dating back to 20,000–25,000 BC. This shocking revelation stems from analyzing stone ...

Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Indus: Lost Civilizations, Andrew Robinson, published by‎ Macmillan, an ...

In the mid 20th Century, Ecuadorian historian Jacinto Jijon Y Caamano set out to investigate the remains of a suspected ...

Animals maintain complex cultures, communication systems, infrastructure, and intergenerational knowledge, writes Ryan Huling ...

A routine dig at a new wind turbine site exposed something else entirely. Fragments emerged out of the ground pointing to a ...

A gold-filled tomb in Panama has led researchers to find evidence of a ancient culture that left behind no written records and simply vanished 1,000 years ago.

Laser technology has revealed a hidden world of sophisticated urban centers and extensive networks within the Amazon ...

Researchers who analyzed genomes from early medieval graves in modern-day Germany hypothesize that people from the former ...

Staff at the Oglethorpe University in Atlanta closed a door on May 28, 1940. Behind the door waits a carefully assembled ...

In the Odyssey, the hero Odysseus is said to have hidden a treasure on the island of Ithaca after finally returning home.

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...