Explore the mysterious relics of Abu Sir, Egypt where an ancient megalithic precision box hides an even more precise inner box. These extraordinary stone artifacts challenge conventional ...

An expert said there could be more scrolls out there as artificial intelligence and other new technology helps to decipher the ancient messages.

Scientists have determined that a giant skull from an ancient human relative named the "Dragon Man" is actually Denisovan.

(via SciShow) Archaeology isn't exactly easy, so it's pretty impressive how often we can figure things out about people that aren't around anymore. But that's not always possible, and some mysteries ...

Discover interesting facts about ancient China's rulers, philosophy, and the Great Wall of China.

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and grim contents may hold the key to unraveling the complex geopolitics ...

Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it might represent a whole new branch.

The ancient Indian sport of mallakhamb awards points for "mounting." ...

Lead pollution in ancient Rome was so high that it dropped the population’s IQ by around 3 points, if not more.

Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could make sense of that. Ultra-self-interacting dark matter clumped into ...