This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Ancient scripts like Linear A and Rongorongo are among the mysterious undeciphered languages that continue to puzzle ...

From unexplained explosions and abandoned settlements to missing tombs and lost technologies, these cases sit at the boundary ...

When Howard Carter peered through a small opening in the Valley of the Kings in 1922, he wasn’t just looking at gold that had ...

Ancient Cuneiform Script found in a Czech cave surprises researchers as they investigate whether it reflects lost cultural links.

The iconic fantasy horror series, Supernatural, explored many different mythological and paranormal elements. Sam and Dean Winchester traveled the country following cases of the strange and ...

Archaeologists found evidence of a previously unknown Roman-era administrative center in present-day Switzerland. Experts believe this settlement was crucial for commerce and record-keeping—all part ...

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 ...

In 2020, a local scuba diver and skipper stumbled upon the well-preserved remains of a rare 13th-century shipwreck off the coast of Dorset, England. The ship, which became known as the “Mortar Wreck,” ...

An unusual email arrived in the inbox of a faculty member at the department of archaeology at Simon Fraser University in the spring of 2024. This email was from a thrift shop, Thrifty Boutique in ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human activity. They are using technology such as laser scanning and magnetometry, ...