Can the myth of the Labyrinth of Knossos be explained by the Minoan civilization? This article examines the evidence.

Easter Island’s Moai statues feature carvings nearly identical to those found on Göbekli Tepe’s most famous pillar. Could these ancient builders—separated by oceans and millennia—have preserved a ...

The mythical “Cloud People” have descended from legend — straight into real life. Archaeologists in southern Mexico have ...

Ziggurats were mudbrick temples designed to bridge heaven and earth, anchoring religion, power, and architecture in the ancient Near East for thousands of years.

A tomb belonging to a mysterious civilization has been discovered in Mexico, featuring imagery of death and power.

New evidence has emerged that sheds light on the possible first people to populate the Americas. Dating of stone and ivory ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

Archaeologists have found 5,000-year-old ancient Egyptian rock art in the Sinai Desert that depicts the conquest of the ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

This specific iconography of subjugation — a bound captive struck by a weapon — has deep roots in Egyptian state ideology. It parallels famous early dynastic scenes like those at Gebel Sheikh Suleiman ...

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.