ASTANA – The archaeologists discovered ancient Sarmatian burial sites in the Atyrau Region, dating back to the fifth century B.C. Excavations at the Karabau-2 mound, located 10 kilometers north of ...

Xi’an, often referred to as the “birthplace of civilisation,” is a city steeped in rich history and culture. Situated in central China, this remarkable city is over 3,000 years old, making ...

Imagine creatures that have survived since the time of dinosaurs. Species like the tuatara, sturgeon, crocodile, hagfish, chambered nautilus, platypus, and jellyfish are all ancient beings that ...

Whenever you add odd numbers together an even amount of times, you always get an even number. So what's a superstitious Roman king to do? Story continues after photo gallery. February chosen to ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others. By Carl Zimmer In 1786, a British judge named ...

The same Caucasus-Lower Volga ancestry also appeared in ancient Anatolia around this time. Based on this evidence, the researchers think that the earliest Indo-European languages were spoken by ...

After being over the moon at the discovery, Egyptologists were left in complete shock after opening a lost pyramid for the very first time. Located in the Dahshur, it is an Ancient Egyptian royal ...

Million-year-old air preserved in ancient ice holds clues to a mystery that has stumped scientists for decades: Why did the ice ages that once transformed Earth every 40,000 years begin to occur ...

In the wake of the Lakers’ trade for Luka Doncic late Saturday night, the immediate fallout pertained to LeBron James and his future with the organization. For every minute of his NBA career ...

It is a common modern belief that in antiquity, people lived very short lives, often dying in their thirties or even earlier. This perception stems from the calculation of life expectancy in ancient ...

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Investigators circle the globe in search of evidence in their quest to determine whether life on Earth began in outer space and if aliens influenced mankind in ancient times.