Keros: A sacred island with enigmatic rituals, an unusual funeral, a carnelian bead from the Indus Valley, weapons production ...

A new Met exhibit, "Divine Egypt," showcases more than 200 artifacts and focuses on the profound roles of deities like Anubis ...

The couple hadn't known how the artifact made its way to their property in New Orleans. But after their story went viral, a ...

The discovery of a sunken port off the coast of Egypt may offer a puzzle piece in the longstanding search for Cleopatra’s lost tomb and glimpses into the country’s ancient maritime ... Geographic and ...

I’ve never seen anything like this,' Bob Ballard, a National Geographic explorer, said about the recent discovery.

For thousands of years, the pyramids of Egypt have stood as the ultimate engineering mystery. Without cranes, engines, or steel tools, ancient builders raised millions of massive stones into precise ...

Artificial intelligence is helping to solve an ancient mystery from the Roman Empire involving scrolls from a library that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted. The eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 ...

The Voynich Manuscript, a cryptic and enigmatic text shrouded in mystery, has baffled scholars, cryptographers and historians for centuries. Discovered in 1912 by Wilfrid Voy­nich, a rare-book dealer, ...

Remarkable life-size rock carvings, depicting camels, gazelles, and other animals, have been discovered in the Saudi Arabian ...