Indiana Jones wannabes, your time has come. A local government in India is offering a $1 million prize to the first person ...

Could this be the biggest archaeological discovery of the century? Tune in to a special edition of MSNBC's "Ancient Mysteries," where we investigate the explosive claim that a long-forgotten mummy, ...

The history of the planet and the civilizations that have lived on it are among life’s greatest mysteries.People have roamed ...

Long before the Black Death killed millions across Europe in the Middle Ages, an earlier, more elusive version of the plague spread across much of Eurasia. For years, scientists were unsure how the ...

Artificial intelligence is helping to solve an ancient mystery from the Roman Empire involving scrolls from a library that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted. The eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 ...

Still, the “board game” framing has a quiet strength: it’s testable. Scholars can compare wear patterns, spatial logic, and symbol clustering against known game-board behaviors, rather than betting ...

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

A multitude of mysteries remain unsolved about the ancient Greek world, providing more questions than answers.

Ancient civilizations accomplished feats of engineering that continue to challenge modern understanding. Despite advances ...

The mystery and beauty of the phenomenon of Chalkida have captivated the Greeks since ancient times, including Aristotle ...