Around 10,000 muons pass through each square meter of Earth’s surface every minute, creating a natural particle shower that researchers are now using to read the interiors of monuments without cutting ...

The Great Pyramid has not yielded its secrets by force, but by physics. In the last decade, researchers studying Khufu’s monument have shown that a previously hidden corridor behind the north face ...

Archaeologists in Croatia have reopened a 2,000-year-old hidden tunnel at the ancient city of Salona, revealing Roman amphitheatres.

Soil from 7,000-year-old Swedish graves reveals hidden feathers and fur, showing some Stone Age people were fully dressed at their burial.

Tourists raise their arms at the Great Basement in the Cuicuilco Archaeological Zone during a tour organized by the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico City on Oct. 5. The ...

MEXICO CITY – Amid the constant blare of car horns in southern Mexico City, it’s hard to imagine that Cuicuilco was once the heart of a thriving ancient civilization. Yet atop its circular pyramid, ...

Ancient alerce trees may shelter entire underground ecosystems, with vast fungal networks helping forests cycle nutrients and store carbon.

A mysterious form of plague that spread across Eurasia thousands of years before the Black Death has finally revealed a crucial clue. Scientists analyzing ancient DNA discovered the bacterium Yersinia ...

Amid the constant blare of car horns in southern Mexico City, it’s hard to imagine that Cuicuilco was once the heart of a thriving ancient civilization. Yet atop its circular pyramid, now surrounded ...