3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (441+ words) Archaeologists have discovered four-wheeled wagons " the first such discovery in Great Britain. The researchers announced their findings in the journal Antiquity on March 17. The vehicle remnants were unearthed at an Iron Age site near the village of Melsonby, some 35 miles…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (596+ words) The Pyramids of Giza might only be the tip of the iceberg. Italian researchers claim they might've found signs of a Sphinx located beneath the Pyramids of Giza, suggesting the existence of a sprawling subterranean citadel. Radar engineer'Filippo Biondi dropped…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (424+ words) Scientists think dogs descended from an ancient population of gray wolves somewhere in Europe or Asia. Tens of thousands of years ago, those wolves got used to living with people and became less aggressive. As they became domesticated, their genes…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (665+ words) Behind the large wooden door, its frescoed walls closed to the general public reveal details of the compound's dramatic history, including papal conclaves and the Inquisition interrogation of Galileo Galilei. At the center is a pond with goldfish and turtles…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (496+ words) Was there a New World order we didn't know about? The discovery of a 2,000-year-old Roman artifact in Mexico could upend our understanding of the New World, raising the possibility that Italians arrived in the Americas long before Christopher Columbus....

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (424+ words) Thousands of Romans once flocked to this arena to watch gladiators battle each other and wild animals. The structure still captures the public's imagination; it is'Italy's'most popular tourist destination, with nine million visitors in 2025 alone. The project focused on a…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (299+ words) These Bay Area men have mammoth problems. Two friends from Petaluma have been arrested after smashing a woolly mammoth tusk while roughhousing at the Ancient Ozarks Natural History Museum in Missouri. The tusk was around 10,000 years old and said to…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (645+ words) Archaeologists have'uncovered a 2,000-year-old temple'in Denmark " offering a glimpse into the mysterious, once-powerful society that built it. The Museum of Central Jutland (Museum Midtjylland) unveiled the discovery of the temple at Hedeg'rd, an ancient site that contains Scandinavia's "largest and…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (684+ words) Archaeologists have uncovered a'lost medieval town'nestled in a remote forest " and new evidence is revealing what the city looked like before its sudden decline. Researchers uncovered the remains of Stolzenberg, a medieval town that appears to have collapsed in the…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (557+ words) Archaeologists have confirmed the location of a long-lost city founded by'Alexander the Great" a once-thriving trade hub that's been hidden for centuries. The ancient city, known as Alexandria on the Tigris, is located in'southern Iraq, near the Persian Gulf. It…...