A trove of "ancient treasures" was recently found in a third-century shipwreck near Greece. Not only did this trove include ...

It wasn't only Antonia de la Ascensión who made this strange error. Juan de Iturbe, who explored parts of California in 1615, ...

The ancient scroll, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. It's ...

Maps are ubiquitous—on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and ...

A study of skeletons from a cave in Poland has revealed widespread evidence of cut marks and fractures suggestive of ...

Archaeologists have discovered potentially the world's oldest 3D map, carved into the floor of a rock shelter outside of ...

For centuries, the Vatican Library has been a vault of historical records, housing some of the world's most treasured texts, ...

This week, explore decoded words from charred ancient scrolls, meet heroic frog daddies, see Grand Canyon-size lunar features ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.

In the 1990s, archaeologists in Poland excavated one of these settlements from 18,000 years ago called Maszycka Cave. Now, ...

Experts just found a 3D map that was carved into quartz sandstone likely 13,000 years ago. Located within the famed Segognole ...

Crossing paths with dozens of isolated villages, the newly opened Dolomites hiking trail, the Cammino Retico, is definitely ...