The construction of the Great Pyramid in Egypt has long remained a mystery to archaeologists, because ancient texts did not ...

The vast majority of our planet’s oceans remain unexplored, hiding secrets that challenge everything we thought we knew about ...

The 5,000-year-old mystery of Stonehenge may have finally been solved with the help of a few tiny grains of sand.

Across the world, archaeologists keep stumbling on structures so old, so large and so technically sophisticated that they ...

Silicon Valley computer history, heritage neighborhoods, museums, parks, restaurants — and a mysterious 160-room mansion ...

The organism, known as prototaxites, stood an astonishing 26 feet tall and thrived around 410 million years ago, before vanishing roughly 360 million years ago.

The only building described in detail by Vitruvius has finally been found, after centuries of searching. Marcus Vitruvius ...

The structure is the first known evidence of a building attributed to Vitruvius, the author of an architectural treatise that ...

The buildings were used for a variety of purposes, from mealtimes to “industrial activities” that kept the site running.

Their trunklike fossils were discovered in 1843. Yet despite more than a century of speculation, scientists have struggled to ...

The mansion's foundations and floors are likely well-preserved, according to geophysical surveys. The discovery provides new ...

Archaeologists find 20 people buried beneath a single floor in Çatalhöyük, revealing key rituals and social changes.