Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?

Combining the writing on the bones with paleoclimate reconstructions, the team found how typhoon activity helped shift the cultural makeup of China.

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

Three leaves had been missing for more than a century. Researchers found one of them when they decided on a whim to check the archives of a French museum ...

The whole setup feels like someone decided to preserve a slice of California history and accidentally created one of the most delightful experiences in the state. When you pull into the parking area, ...

A routine drive by NASA’s Curiosity rover accidentally cracked open a Martian rock, revealing rare yellow sulfur crystals. The strange discovery has scientists questioning how such an unexpected ...

Meteor Crater formed some 50,000 years ago. It represents the best preserved meteor impact site in the world, measuring some ...

Digital imaging reveals hidden secrets of Aegean scripts, helping researchers study ancient Bronze Age tablets from Mycenae ...

Explore the possibility of lost ancient high technology in Egypt through the study of mysterious megalithic stonework found in some of the most fascinating archaeological sites. This video examines ...

Scientists still have many questions about the earliest years of our planet. Earth formed about 4.55 billion years ago, but almost no rocks from that time have survived. Without those ancient rocks, ...

The Archimedes Palimpsest is a 10th-century Byzantine Greek manuscript that was overwritten in the 13th century with a Christian liturgical text. This practice of creating a palimpsest, or a reused ...

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...