Some ancient writing systems cannot be deciphered. Can artificial intelligence help crack the codes of the past?

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...

Researchers studied fossils, well-preserved remains and even a single fingerprint to solve some of history’s long-standing mysteries this year.

For nearly a century, a strange band of thousands of holes carved into a Peruvian hillside has defied explanation. Stretching for nearly a mile (1.5 km) along the edge of the Pisco Valley, Monte ...

Using cutting-edge DNA analysis, scientists at London’s Natural History Museum have uncovered the true identity and origins ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

An ancient fingerprint and several chemical clues from a 2,400-year-old sea raiders' boat are revealing secrets about where ...

In the fourth century BCE, mysterious raiders attacked a Danish island. Now we might finally know where they came from.

When an ancient ship was unearthed in Scandinavia over 100 years ago, archaeologists started to uncover bits and pieces of ...

There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 years ago in what’s now Suffolk, England.

A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...