Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius volcano in 79 AD, clarifying the ingredients and methods ...

A colossal 7,000-year-old granite wall, France's largest underwater construction, has been unearthed off Brittany's coast. This 120-meter structure, f ...

The ancestor of today’s great white shark was thought to be about eight metres long, the authors of a paper published in ...

A monstrous shark, predating whales, great whites, or even the bus-sized megalodon, once prowled the waters off what is now ...

There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

Archaeologists at the Hisardere Necropolis in Iznik found an early Christian fresco inside a tomb that depicts a young, clean ...

In 1926, salesman Scott Wallace claimed to find a hidden city in a Missouri cave — then vanished before revealing its ...

Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico. Credit: National ...

CAIRO, Egypt - An Italian archaeological mission has discovered the remains of a sun temple belonging to an ancient Egyptian ...

Because these objects are anchored to specific historical contexts, their ages provide a reliable snapshot of the period. The ...