When the Moon fully slips into Earth's shadow, a king shall die. So warns an ominous prediction from Old Babylonia, inscribed across several ancient clay tablets. For over a century now, these precious astrological artifacts have been housed at the British Museum, but only recently did ...

Slowly but surely, the ground is regurgitating its secrets. The history that lies buried beneath the swirling sands of time yields, piece by piece, to technology. But one such piece, in a well-explored region, has archaeologists a little baffled. Near the famous ancient Great Pyramid of ...

Dozens of broken pieces of pottery dating between 2,000 and 3,000 years old have been unearthed on a windswept island on the Great Barrier Reef – the oldest pottery ever discovered in Australia. The remnants, found less than a meter below the surface by Traditional Owners and ...

What if the giant sail-backed Spinosaurus wasn’t actually a swimming dinosaur at all? Despite some scientists’ impressions of the dinosaur, as well as the way it is portrayed in Jurassic Park 3, the Spinosaurus might not have been very good at diving. This new theory is shared in-depth in a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient stone tools found in western Ukraine may be the oldest known evidence of early human presence in Europe, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The chipped stones, deliberately fashioned from volcanic rock, were excavated from a quarry in ...

Researchers have come across a wonderfully intriguing find in the north of Spain: a bronze hand dating back some 2,000 years, all the way back to the Iron Age, with four lines of strange symbols inscribed across its top. A new study suggests that this ancient epigraph is related to ancient ...

For hundreds of years during the Middle Ages, Kaltenborn monastery was thriving in central Germany. Archaeologists are now exploring the ruins of that monastery to help understand its downfall in the 16th century. Kaltenborn monastery near Allstedt was founded in 1118 by Ludwig the ...

  Massive swords of Hungarian origin dating back to the 14th century, now on display at the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul. The one in the middle (the biggest) is 270 cm long. #Swords #Hungarian #TopkapiPalace #Museum #Ancient #History #Historyfacts #historic #historical ...

  "Circus Cups" (3rd Century AD), are Roman Glass Cups found in princely graves in Denmark. They are known as 'Circus Cups' due to their enamel-decorated images of animals from Roman arena. Imported from workshops in Rhine area. These unusual and attractively decorated vessels were ...

  These tunnels were once believed to hide religious fortunes deep in their chambers, but the real treasure is found in who or what created them. In 2009, a farmer was driving through his corn field in the south of Brazil when he suddenly felt his tractor sink and lurch to one ...