A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have for the first time used galactic ...

A leading Iranian archaeologist has told FRANCE 24 that the destruction of Iranian archeological sites is destroying part of ...

The theory that aliens assisted the builders of ancient monuments was popularised by Swiss author Erich von Däniken in his ...

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

The Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology still holds 46 percent of the Native American ancestors in its ...

A widely shared image claiming to show Ramesses II’s 1974 passport is an artist’s rendering. Although Egypt issued a real ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself? The idea that aliens assisted the ...

The axes were dated to the Pleistocene, likely made by Homo erectus, the first human species to evolve to have a humanlike ...

A simple note from the trash reveals proof of the existence of a Nubian king and insight into how a kingdom was run.

An incredible rediscovery in the archives has brought to light the only known visual representation of a female beast hunter fighting in the Roman arena. The 1,700-year-old mosaic from Reims, France, ...

By reading the chemical “fingerprints” of a distant galaxy, astronomers reconstructed its 12-billion-year evolution. This new ...