Explore 25 ancient structures with baffling burials still unexplained. From incestuous Neolithic tombs to mass sacrifices, ...

THIS FOSSIL WORE THE WRONG NAME FOR 40 YEARS. IT TURNED OUT TO EXPLAIN HOW INSECTS TOOK OVER THE WORLD. For roughly forty ...

The 2,000-year-old Antikythera mechanism found in an ancient Greek shipwreck has been dubbed the "first computer," using a wind-up dial system to track the celestial time of the Sun, Moon and five ...

Archaeologists found the long-lost piece buried beneath the ground, allowing a 40-ton monument to stand complete again more ...

Learn more about some of ancient Egypt's most sought-after mysteries and what we have discovered so far.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The tomb of King Tutankhamun is among the most iconic ancient Egyptian ...

Geologists led by the University of Maryland and the University of Hawaiʻi finally connected the dots between one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth's history and its source deep beneath the ...

When a group of eleven rare obsidian arrowheads, recently uncovered at Tepecik-Çiftlik in Central Turkey, were added to the ...

What happens when several hundred archaeologists gather in a “glass box” in the desert? It’s an odd kind of question, but this actually occurred last week when experts from all over the planet ...

Ancient Greek theories on the Milky Way galaxy ranged from mythology to science, with ideas from Democritus, Aristotle and ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A new study has uncovered the likely cause behind the mysterious ...