Archaeology

The Island of Sardinia, west of the Italian Peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea, holds many ancient secrets. Today, ancient astronaut theorists are most interested in the monumental tombs and other sites that seem to indicate a race of giants who used advanced technology. If not giants, it's still unexplainable...

The disappearance of the Ancient Puebloans, also known as the Anasazi, from Chaco Canyon in the 12th century is an enduring mystery that is still debated to this day, but a Colorado University paleoclimatologist believes he has solved part of the puzzle. Located in New Mexico within the Four Corners...

In 2007, paleoanthropologist and rock art researcher Genevieve von Petzinger decided to set out to study geometric signs found in caves and other sites, dating back as far as 40,000 years ago during the Stone Age. While most people are familiar with the familiar petroglyphs of animals, little was...

Formed as a result of the natural processes that created quarries and other natural phenomena millions of years ago underground, the city of Paris and its catacombs are famed for many reasons. Probably one of the most macabre is that it contains about 150 miles of quarries under its...

Just as there are those who still believe the Earth is flat, there are those who refuse to acknowledge that climate change is real and that it will harm our modern society. But a new study of ancient climate change offers even more proof that we had better prepare...

It’s the 1990s. A group of archeologists in Mexico City had been excavating parts of an Aztec temple over 500 years old when they uncovered something exciting — a body. But this isn’t just a random burial. This is the body of someone who was sacrificed. The body has been very...

For many years, explorers made it their mission to discover new places and people and tell the stories of what they saw. Through their stories and anecdotes, we can only hope to see a clearer picture of what they saw through their eyes and the paths they walked start to...

Astronomers have spotted what they claim is a relatively small (1.5 mile-wide) object 'hovering' at the outermost edge of our solar system. According to reports, scientists believe the recently-discovered object is the 'first ever sighting of its kind' and could help experts unravel the mysteries of the evolution of our...

According to the latest research, the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun, part of the so-called Bosnian Pyramid Complex near Visoko, Bosnia, and Herzegovina is around 32,000 old and is a manmade structure and not a hill as skeptics have claimed. This is the result of a set of Radiocarbon dating tests...

A man exploring a Viking Age farmstead in the Icelandic highlands has found a unique, never-before-seen amulet representing Thor’s hammer Mjolnir. No other similar artifact has ever been discovered anywhere else in the world. Ancient Icelandic sources claim that Mjolnir is one of the most feared weapons in Norse mythology. In ancient...