New findings show that a 3,000-year-old Maya site was designed as a giant map of the cosmos, still visible from the air.

Archaeologists have uncovered the “discovery of the decade” in Oaxaca, Mexico, after 1,400 years. An ancient tomb believed to ...

One of over 57,000 known archaeological sites in the province, Tse'k'wa is a record of 12,500 years of human settlement and ...

Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, unleashing millions of laser pulses into a dense ...

The handprints dotting the walls of an Indonesian cave had tapered fingertips, and the team found the prints were nearly ...

It’s not every day that you find a medieval wheel cross, and it’s even rarer when the find matches another centuries-old ...

Dani was not just Pakistan’s most influential archaeologist, but also its most insistent storyteller, often called the ...

The mythical “Cloud People” have descended from legend — straight into real life. Archaeologists in southern Mexico have ...

Zahi Hawass recounts his rise in the new documentary The Man With the Hat, gracefully sidestepping the controversies that ...

The president of Mexico called the discovery of a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb in Oaxaca the "most significant archaeological ...

A new analysis of mineral grains has refuted the "glacial transport theory" that suggests Stonehenge's bluestones and Altar ...

In a discovery that has captured the imagination of historians and travelers alike, archaeologists unearthed a 7,000-year-old ...