The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

Ancient civilizations left behind enigmatic sites like the Plain of Jars, Nazca Lines, Paracas Candelabra, Yonaguni Submarine ...

The Indus Valley Civilization, now referred to as the Sindhu-Saraswati civilization by Indian historians, peaked between 5,000 and 3,500 years ago across modern-day northwest India and Pakistan. Their ...

Albert Lin is photographed in front of Chachapoyas sarcophagi during his quest to find the lost city of the Chachapoyas in Peru. (National Geographic for Disney/Rocio Lira) "Lost Cities Revealed with ...

For years, researchers have questioned who created the “band of holes” site in Peru. A new study suggests it was an ancient marketplace.

A look into ancient henge sites, exploring their purpose, alignment with celestial events, and the mysteries behind why early ...

Cave stalagmite in Himalayas offers most detailed explanation for what led to decline of ancient Indus civilization, study says. Photo from Jed Owen via Unsplash Four thousand years ago, the sprawling ...

More than two thousand years ago, the Greeks created a mechanical device so advanced that it still remains a mystery to ...

The absence of modern-day calculators did not stop ancient cultures from performing extraordinary feats of mathematics. The ancient Greeks kept count with abaci, frames with rods or grooves for moving ...