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Peruvian archaeologists recently discovered over 50 new Nasca lines in the Peruvian desert. Scientists found the lines while using drones to survey other locally-known geoglyphs for the first time, National Geographic reported....

Peruvian archaeologists recently uncovered impressive new Nasca lines in the Peruvian desert. Scientists used drones to discover over 50 new examples, and to survey locally-known geoglyphs for the first time, National Geographic...

A French-Colombian NGO is racing against time to save the Maya Nut tree from near-extinction. A remarkable tree that produces a highly-nutritious fruit, Brosimum alicastrum once grew in abundance from Mexico to Brazil, but...

A recent archaeological find could offer insight into how ancient people viewed the world. At Nahualac, a site in the Iztaccíhuatl volcano foothills near Mexico City, Mexican archaeologists identified what's called a tetzacualco,...

If a group of prehistoric women somehow time-traveled to the present, they could probably lick the rowers of Cambridge University's boat club in a race...

Pterosaurs roamed the skies long ago as the first animals to evolve powered flight after insects - and in the Gobi Desert, scientists recently found the remains of one that could have been nearly as big as a small aircraft...

Ancient Egyptians moved more than 170,000 tons of limestone to construct the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Archaeologists have long puzzled over just how they accomplished that feat,...

Firebricks - or bricks made with clay able to endure temperatures of 1,600 degrees Celsius - have been around for at least 3,000 years. Now Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers are revisiting this ancient...

The exact formula for Roman concrete has been lost. This is unfortunate, as many 2,000-year-old Roman concrete piers and breakwaters structures are even stronger today than they were when they were built millennia ago, while...

Mystery still shrouds much of the story of our origins, but new Arizona State University (ASU) research sheds new light on why we first emerged where and when we did...

The discovery of a 14,000-year-old ancient village in Canada could forever alter our understanding of early civilization in North America. Researchers estimate the settlement is way older than the Giza pyramids, and have...

The discovery of a 14,000-year-old ancient village in Canada could forever alter our understanding of early civilization in North America. Researchers estimate the settlement is way older than the Giza pyramids, and have...

Brexit - or Britain's vote to leave the European Union - remains controversial even as Prime Minister Theresa May begins the process of leaving. But it turns out this process may not have been the first Brexit ever. Research...

There's so much we don't know about ancient civilizations, but the discovery of a 30,031-square-foot palace complex in Mexico may yield some hints. Two American Museum of Natural History anthropologists recently reported...

Around four billion years ago, bacteria formed tiny tubes and filaments, likely in deep-sea hydrothermal vents. An international team of scientists lead by the University College London (UCL) recently discovered those microorganism...