How could the principle of "radical mundanity" proposed by the Fermi paradox help explain why humans haven't found evidence ...

At Egypt’s Elephantine Island, newly examined granite artifacts reveal machining marks that some experts believe couldn’t have been made with primitive tools. This video explores the most compelling ...

The Etruscans are considered the first great Italian civilization: they lived in the area between present-day Tuscany, Lazio ...

At the Tayma Oasis in Saudi Arabia stands a rock split with uncanny precision—so sharp it looks like it was sliced by a laser ...

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An ancient Maya calendar predicted eclipses with astonishing precision, unlocking secrets that modern science is still ...

Analysis of a massive wooden monument has uncovered new secrets of Cahokia, America’s greatest lost civilization.

What if everything we’ve been taught about the dawn of civilization is a lie—or at least a half-truth? Picture this: more than 10,000 years ago, while the last Ice Age glaciers retreated, a ...

NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the phrase ...

During her hunt for the Egyptian queen’s lost tomb, National Geographic Explorer Kathleen Martínez uncovered the sunken landscape near the ruins of Taposiris Magna. Archeologist Kathleen Martínez and ...

A remarkable discovery has emerged from the icy expanse of Antarctica: tiny pieces of amber found in the seafloor sediments of Pine Island Bay, West Antarctica. These pieces, dating back around 90 ...

Archaeologists excavated hundreds of gold and silver coins in the Czech Republic they believe date back 2,500 years. The stash of coins features a mix of never-seen-before styles, some with animal ...