Now, groundbreaking research published in the Journal of Cultural Heritage has finally unraveled the chemical mystery behind this extraordinary preservation phenomenon. The teenage boy's remains, ...

For more than half a billion years, a giant magnetic anomaly buried in Earth’s ancient rocks has puzzled scientists. The ...

NEW ORLEANS — There is a mystery that archeologists and anthropologists are trying to solve. That mystery starts with a find in the backyard of a local home and will soon end in a city about an hour ...

SANTA CRUZ — While a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz history professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient artifacts in Syria marked with an alphabetic script whose meaning ...

Scientists have discovered a long-buried branch of the Nile river that once flowed alongside more than 30 pyramids in Egypt, potentially solving the mystery of how ancient Egyptians transported the ...

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