Inside a wooden tar-paper shack, technicians manning a crude control panel with dials and switches sent Cape Canaveral's first rocket — Bumper 8 — soaring skyward over the Atlantic Ocean on July 24, ...

State archaeologists and geologists are working together to solve a more than 10,000-year-old mystery at the Piney Grove archaeological site near Reisterstown, building on discoveries first made in ...

Researchers have conducted a census of the Japanese population around 2,500 years ago using the Y chromosomes of men living on the main islands of modern-day Japan. This is the first time analysis of ...

Growing up in the Northwest in the 20th century, if you had any interest in local history, you probably heard about the mystery of the “Beeswax Ship.” You might have read about it in a book from your ...

For archaeologists and historians, the "Pearl of the Balkans," Lake Ohrid, contains a mystery. The remnants of a long-forgotten village that had been submerged for more than 8,000 years have been ...

The history of the planet and the civilizations that have lived on it are among life’s greatest mysteries.People have roamed ...

The identities of a pharaoh and a nonroyal person in an "impossible" statue may have finally been deciphered. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

An archeological site in the ancient Roman city of Pollentia (iStock). Visitors to the site of the ancient Roman city of Pollentia during the month of July at any point in the last five years would ...

A mystery artifact was recently excavated from The Paul Revere House property located on the Freedom Trail, Boston Archaeology announced on Tuesday. The city of Boston’s Archaeology department shared ...

From the 3-million-year-old skeleton of Lucy to the 5,000-year-old Italian Iceman Otzi, human remains tell humanity’s most-intimate stories. Without human remains, archaeologists are left with ...