The modern-day Bo people of southeastern China have long maintained that they had no connection to those inside the hanging ...

Archaeologists recently found the lost ruins of a ceremonial temple—covered in sand and 4,000 to 5,000 years old—in ...

Ancient bones can surprise anyone who assumes the past always lines up neatly. Scientists pulled fragments of DNA from people who lived on the Bogotá Altiplano thousands of years ago, and the results ...

Archaeologists in Hungary have uncovered a 1,300-year-old warrior’s tomb containing one of only about 80 known Avar sabers, a ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

Richard Bevan reveals the real stories behind the world’s lost cities - how they fell, how they were found, and why their ...

A lost ancient city famed for its pearls may have finally been identified by archaeologists. A team of researchers working on Siniyah Island off the coast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." An estimated 90 percent of human Amazonian history is lost within the jungle itself. A new discovery has ...

Straight out of an Indiana Jones movie, National Geographic Explorer Albert Lin is on a mission to unlock the secrets of lost cities from ancient civilizations. From the remote cave systems of Oman to ...

The lost city of Atlantis may never be found, but in Turkey you'll discover two underwater cities to snorkel and dive in, ...