Explore archaeological discoveries, fossils, ancient civilizations, human origins and artifacts that reveal how people and species lived in the past.
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On June 10, the Mexican National Institute of History and Archeology announced that archaeologists have discovered a set of remains dating back to about 800 AD at the ca…
Archaeologists have discovered many ancient strongholds near Cambodia's Angkor Wat ruins, according to The Guardian.
The 10kg butter is found at a depth of nearly 4m below the marsh and still can be theoretically eaten.
Study the movement of ancient herds of bulls to give a clue about the first people to live in the Americas.
The footprints of Eubrontes Gleneronsensis Theropod carnivores that lived 150 million years ago have been found in India's Thaiyat, Jaisalmer region.
Scary skull masks in the Templo Mayor temple of the Aztec civilization have long been a great mystery for archaeologists.
Thanks to drought, the rampart wall of Panjiakou Lake has emerged to allow visitors to visit from above instead of diving.
Italian doctors could find the reason why Leonardo da Vinci was so sick that he was bedridden for the last few months of his life.
The mummy is an 18-week-old fetus, carefully wrapped in a thick band of ice, housed in a cedar wood coffin filled with black plastic.
Australian archaeologists have discovered a stone ax, identified as 44,000 to 49,000 years old. Currently this stone ax is considered the oldest in the world.
500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci pioneered quite a number of research fields, from poetry to mathematics, engineering, anatomy, science, astronomy, geology and especiall…
When the entire human genome was sequenced for the first time 13 years ago, scientists were stunned to discover that our DNA was so different from its relatives - monkey…
These antiquities once belonged to a bustling city of ancient Egyptian civilization, likened to a legendary Atlantis city ...
The anklet, wrist ring, earrings or rings made from many materials of the ancient Vietnamese people of Dong Son culture 2500-2000 years ago were first displayed in Nghe…
Argentina researchers have reported finding fossils of a prehistoric giant bird with the largest wingspan ever recorded living about 50 million years ago in Antarctica.