The search for Amelia Earhart’s missing airplane has gone on for more than eight decades. Theories abound, but evidence of the legendary aviator’s ultimate fate has been hard to find.

A McGill University researcher has discovered that Guiengola, a 15th century Zapotec site in southern Oaxaca, Mexico that had been thought to be simply a fortress where soldiers were garrisoned, was i ...

In a find that sheds new light on the spiritual practices and belief systems of America’s ancient indigenous inhabitants, a team of researchers has discovered a network of ancient parallel ceremonial ...

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have unveiled a unique papyrus from the collections held by the Israel Antiquities Autho ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that a house in England is the site of a lost residence of Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, as shown in the famous Bayeux Tapestry.By reinterpreting ...

In the doomed city of Pompeii, the decadence and degeneracy of wealthy Roman aristocrats was legendary. At this elite mecca ...

In a shocking turn of events, thieves carried out a daring heist at a museum in the Netherlands, using explosives to break into the Drents Museum in Assen early Saturday morning.

People have been debating the existence of the Loch Ness monster since the early part of the 20th century when sightings seemed to become more common.

In the historically important town of Abarkuh in the Yazd province of central Iran, excavations have revealed something hidden that has stunned archaeologists and made them reconsider what they though ...

The name "Jesus Christ" is one of the most recognizable on Earth. However, experts now suggest that this might not have been ...

An independent scholar who loves challenging the archaeological establishment has done it again, offering a new and provocative theory about who built the huge, enigmatic human-like monuments that cov ...

Archaeologists from Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia have uncovered evidence pointing to the existence of a Revolutionary War barracks on land near the Colonial Williamsburg Regional Visitor Center.