In the coastal desert of Peru, a line of crumbling stone towers rises from the sand, framing the horizon with an almost ...

Located in southwestern Colorado, Mesa Verde National Park is home to some of the oldest human dwellings in North America.

The island of Cyprus carries a long history mirrored through archaeological sites scattered in between its cities and the ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans built astonishing monuments like the Lighthouse of Alexandria and the Hanging Gardens of ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

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

A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...

The Associated Press has inducted Arden Cho, Owen Cooper, Danny Ramirez, Chase Sui Wonders and Tramell Tillman as its 2025 ...

With its recorded history going back to well beyond 2000 years, India is home to several incredible structures that have ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.