Rising from the windswept plains of Salisbury, Stonehenge has stood for thousands of years as a silent witness to the passage of time. Its circle of towering stones, shrouded in ...

History is full of strange, unexplainable events that can leave anyone scratching their head in wonder. From lost civilizations to unsolved murders, the ...

Built using millions of stone blocks, the construction of the pyramids has long been the topic of speculation, argument, and conspiracy.

Across the world, there are countless ancient structures and artifacts that challenge our understanding of history. From the ...

"To know, is to know that you know nothing," said Socrates, the famed ancient Greek philosopher. And while we know a LOT thanks to science, there's still so much that we don't know. These mysteries ...

Recent research has pushed the boundaries of ancient protein analysis, retrieving proteins from fossils up to 24 million years old. These findings offer deeper insights into evolutionary history, ...

AI I used ChatGPT to try and solve ancient mysteries — here's how you can too Features By John Brandon published 3 July 2025 Who knew AI would be so good at ciphers ...

The discovery itself is simple and fundamental, but the applications stretch far and wide into astrophysics and quantum ...

Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the teeth of a well-preserved skeleton found in a sealed funeral pot in an ...

In the arid steppes of inner Anatolia, the ancient city of Çatalhöyük, the world’s first proto-city was littered with common hearths and goddess figurines. A fascinating new paper published in Science ...

The mysterious alignments of standing stones scattered across Brittany in France have intrigued archaeologists and tourists alike for centuries. Now, fresh discoveries at the Le Plasker site near ...