An Aramaic inscription found at Zerzevan Castle documents the closure of a Mithras temple. This ancient text provides rare ...

Gunung Padang, a megalith in West Java, Indonesia, is a striking sight, a lush hill dotted with a collection of sharp, ...

For thousands of years, the pyramids have guarded their secrets. On today’s episode of The Infographics Show, we uncover how these ancient marvels were built with impossible precision, and why the ...

Roche's Genentech unit has forged an alliance with Astex, worth up to $515 million, to partner on a fragment-based drug ...

Scientists are investigating whether the funerary architecture of these tombs served as the foundation for the development of ...

Taken together, the discoveries suggest that Egyptian burial architecture was being tested and refined centuries before the ...

Minanbé (“there is no road” in Yucatec Maya) is the name of a newly discovered, intact ancient Maya city in the depths of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in the Mexican state of Campeche. The ...

Researchers hacked through more than three miles of vegetation to get to the site, which lies out of bounds of familiar ...

Archaeologists in Egypt just cracked open two ancient tombs that nobody’s seen in millennia, and what they found inside could ...

Buried beneath terraced volcanic rock in the highlands of West Java, Indonesia, lies a hill that briefly shook the archaeological world. Known as Gunung Padang, or "Mountain of Light," the site has ...

Archaeologists discovered the remarkably preserved Maya city of Minanbé in Mexico's Campeche jungle, revealing pyramids, ...

The buried structure may be an entrance to something deeper beneath the desert floor.