Mexican boffins who found an ancient canoe carved from a single tree trunk say it may have been used in rituals symbolising the entrance to the underworld. Underwater archaeologists found…
A massive ancient Roman building dating back 2,000 years has been discovered just inches under the surface of a gravel pit in the Swiss Alps. The complex was so close…
Ancient bureaucrats introduced the first weight and measures system to transport food and wine more than 3,000 years ago, scientists have revealed. Experts examined millennia-old amphoras from pre-Roman times to…
A 5,000-year-old tooth from a Copper Age tribal leader for years thought to be a man has revealed that she was really a powerful woman. For 15 years scientists believed…
A rare fragment of a poem by Ancient Roman scholar Virgil has been discovered scratched on a shard of a broken olive oil jar dating back nearly 2,000 years. The…
Scientists in Germany have reanimated a roundworm from the Siberian permafrost that had laid dormant for nearly 50,000 years. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, Saxony State, thawed…
Historians examining the Roman shipwreck where the Dial of Destiny from the new Indiana Jones film was found deep underwater and surrounded by skeletons have found a second ship nearby.…
Marine scientists have discovered a huge and previously unknown coral reef in perfect condition off the coast of Charles Darwin's Galapagos islands. Experts in the team from Britain, America and…
A new study has revealed that women played key roles in the political and economic life of an ancient Mongol empire over 2,300 years ago. The remarkable research shows that…
Ancient body tags used to identify mummies from 2,000 years ago could hold the secret of the planet's extreme weather patterns, it has emerged. Scientists in Switzerland are examining 3,000…