Giants, according to tradition, were creatures so massive that they caused the Earth to quake when they walked.
In the 1940s, archaeologists in Argedava, Romania, oversaw an excavation in search of precious artifacts belonging to Dacian commander Burebista. Ionita Florea,...
An elite Merovingian cemetery in Germany has yielded a wide range of warrior weapons and luxury jewelry. But what is getting all the attention in the media is the headless horse that was discovered buried next to its warrior...
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 7,200-year-old skeleton from a female hunter-gatherer in Indonesia that has a “distinct human lineage” never found anywhere in the world, according to research published this week.
The relatively intact fossil, which belonged to...
Fossils and DNA point to mixing and mingling among Homo groups across vast areas
Fossil discoveries reported this year, including a partial jaw (left) and braincase (right) from Israel, supported an idea that mating among many widespread but closely related Homo groups fostered...
Moses was a prophet and a leader according to Abrahamic religions, but many scholars view him as a legendary figure rather than a real historic person. They do concede that a Moses-like figure could have existed in history, so...
There is a very popular underlying theory that’s been going around for ages now, and that is the theory that aliens lived amongst us in ancient times. There is a lot of proof backing it up, most of the...
An artist's reconstruction of a baby oviraptorid in the egg nest. (Julius Csotonyi)
A rare and exquisitely preserved dinosaur embryo tucked inside an egg like a baby bird has been unearthed in southern China, providing an "unprecedented glimpse" into dinosaur...
Rare find is the first of its kind in North America
It isn't every day that scientists dig up a dinosaur jaw—or unearth the remains of fossilized insects. So paleontologists couldn't believe their luck when, in 2010, they found the...
These spooky apocalyptic images are not a scene from “Walking Dead,” they were actually taken at one of the biggest car junkyards in the world – the Chatillion Car Graveyard, Belgium.
According to an urban legend, these vintage cars were...
The tail of a feathered dinosaur has been found perfectly preserved in amber mined in Myanmar.
Scientists discovered a fragment of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur tail preserved in amber. The finding includes bones, tissue, feathers and more, according to a study...
