Stone balls worshipped for generations by a family in India have been revealed to be dinosaur eggs more than 70 million years old. The amazing discovery was made by chance…
A new study led by expert palaeontologists has revealed that male mosquitoes also used to suck blood back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and only later moved to a diet…
Ancient roof tiles in Israel have been discovered in the City of David, which point to the location of an ancient fortress built by King Antiochus IV, who persecuted the…
A five-year-old boy unearths a 500-million-year-old fossil while accompanying his dad on a hike. Phone footage captured by his dad, surnamed Yang, shows the little boy, dressed in a red…
Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed the earliest known evidence of war in the region dating back more than 7,000 years. A study of hundreds of sling stones has revealed they…
Archaeology experts who painted over 2,000-year-old Amazonian tribal rock carvings for birthday selfies have been censured by antiquities officials in Brazil. The academics, named in local media as Professor Gisella…
The fossils of a 170-million-year-old monster have been identified as the oldest-known mega-predatory reptile closely related to the famous long-necked plesiosaurs. The remains of the ancient reptile, now analysed and…
Viking kings and nobles were among the first in history to put glass into the windows of their timber-framed longhouses, archaeologists have discovered. Early glass windows are usually associated with…
A lack of legal frameworks in the disorganised first cities to be built in the Ancient Middle East led to a significant increase in violence between inhabitants, according to researchers…
Secrets of Egypt's first-ever female pharaoh have been unearthed after archaeologists unlocked hidden treasures of her ancient royal grave. The status of Queen Meret-Neith, a former consort in Egypt's First…