Archaeologists Discover 3,000-Year-Old Megalithic Temple Used by a 'Water Cult' By Yasemin Saplakoglu The temple may have been used for fertility rituals.
Ancient Humanoid-Shaped Nazca Line Discovered in Peruvian Desert By Owen Jarus A sprawling humanoid-shaped Nazca Line etched into the Peruvian desert has just been discovered by a team of scientists using artificial intelligence.
Mesopotamia: The Land Between Two Rivers By Owen Jarus Irrigation, writing, trigonometry, calculus — many important discoveries and innovations were made in "the land between two rivers."
2 Infants Were Buried Wearing Helmets Made from Kids' Skulls. And Archaeologists Are Puzzled. By Owen Jarus Two infants were buried some 2,100 years ago wearing "helmets" made from the skulls of other children, archaeologists have discovered.
Ancient 'Shaman' Woman's Piercing Gaze Brought to Life in Stunning Reconstruction By Mindy Weisberger An artist’s reconstruction of an ancient hunter-gatherer woman shows a stern-faced woman wearing a feather cape and sitting upright on a bed of antlers.
Magnificent Egyptian Catacomb Reveals Carvings of a 'Worthy' Woman and Her Pet By Owen Jarus Almost 2,000 years ago, at a time when the Romans ruled Egypt, a woman named "Demetria" was laid to rest in a magnificently decorated catacomb at Saqqara in Egypt.
Ancient Egyptians May Have Corralled Millions of Wild Birds to Sacrifice and Turn into Mummies By Nicoletta Lanese New DNA evidence suggests that Egyptians captured wild birds for millions of ritualistic sacrifices, rather than farming the animals.
Wreck of Famous British Sub Sunk by Germans in WWII Discovered Off Malta By Tom Metcalfe The wreck of a Royal Navy submarine that mysteriously disappeared with 44 people on board during World War II has been discovered off the Mediterranean island of Malta.
Czar's Booze Discovered on Ship Sunk by a U-Boat in the Baltic Sea in 1917 By Tom Metcalfe Hundreds of bottles of cognac and Benedictine liqueur have been salvaged from a ship sunk by a German U-boat in the Baltic Sea in 1917.
What If the Berlin Wall Had Not Fallen in 1989? By All About History Thirty years ago this November, the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War — but what would have happened if East and West remained divided?
Battle-Scarred Viking Shield-Maiden Gets Facial Reconstruction for First Time By Brandon Specktor Scientists reconstructed the face of a battle-scarred Viking shield-maiden for the first time ever.
The Catholic Church Made You 'Weird.' That's Not a Bad Thing. By Stephanie Pappas The policies of the medieval Catholic clergy may be responsible for modern psychology in the West.
Ancient Ape with 'Human Legs' and 'Orangutan Arms' Moved Like No Other Creature on Earth By Charles Q. Choi This weird locomotion has never been seen until now.
17th-Century Tunnel Decorated with Pre-Hispanic Carvings Discovered in Mexico By Yasemin Saplakoglu Archaeologists have uncovered a 17th-century tunnel filled with indigenous rock carvings in the city of Ecatepec in Mexico.
Inside Ancient Egyptian Cat Mummy, Archaeologists Find the Remains of 3 Cats By Yasemin Saplakoglu Scans of the inside of an ancient cat mummy revealed that the 2,500-year-old feline supposedly resting within wasn't a single animal.
Ancient 70-Mile-Long Wall Found in Western Iran. But Who Built It? By Owen Jarus Archaeologists have identified the remains of a stone wall in Iran about the length of the famous Hadrian's Wall that was built across England by the Romans.
Centuries-Old 'Witch Marks' in Hidden Cave Can Finally Be Seen ... in 3D By Mindy Weisberger A cave that held hundreds of carved medieval wards against evil was inaccessible to the public — until now.
Ötzi the Iceman's Unfortunate Last Journey Possibly Uncovered By Stephanie Pappas The mummified body of Ötzi the Iceman was discovered alongside 75 different species of mosses and liverworts, some of which he carried with him.
Jesus Painting Bound for the Dump Is Lost Renaissance Masterpiece Worth $27 Million By Brandon Specktor A 13th-century painting that hung over an elderly French woman's hot plate for years has sold at auction for $26.8 million.
Medical Students May Have Secretly Practiced on Human Bodies Found in 19th-Century Burial in Scotland By Tom Metcalfe
