The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana ...

From Vedic hymns to stone observatories, how ancient India mapped the cosmos, decoded time, and laid the foundations of ...

Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

Astronomers studying a distant galaxy cluster stumbled upon ancient radio signals that might hold clues to the formation of ...

Ancient Observatories Burzahom, near Srinagar, is Kashmir’s earliest known human settlement, dating from 8000 BCE to 1000 BCE. Excavated in 1935, the site revealed three stages of the Neolithic ...

The tomb is 5,200 years old - older than the Great Pyramid of Giza - and is also renowned for a winter solstice phenomenon ...

More than 4,500 years ago, at the dawn of Egypt’s pyramid age, a man was laid to rest in a ceramic pot. He was then sealed ...

The 5,000-year-old tomb was once thought to be the preserve of high society but new research suggests that's not the case.