The Shroud of Turin. Is it the burial cloth of Jesus Christ? A work of art? Or the greatest prank ev...

It stands as tall as a six-story building and is the length of a jumbo jet. Egypt's Great Sphinx is...

A ten-inch golden statue discovered in a cave near Bogota may be the key to the greatest treasure ne...

Most kings of England get a grand tomb when they die, but not Richard III. His body vanished after b...

The Vinland Map was allegedly created 50 years before Christopher Columbus set sail, but amazingly,...

"Jesus said to them, my wife." These six words caused international debate when they were recently d...

The stone giants of Easter Island are some of the most recognizable statues on Earth, and some of th...

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still in existence a...

Queen Nefertiti was the most powerful woman in ancient Egypt. But few would know anything about her...

It's a wooden box, covered in gold, and topped with two winged figures. It also may be the most famo...

The Spear of Destiny pierced the side of Jesus, contains a nail from the crucifix, and magically bri...

Blackbeard's ship, "Queen Anne's Revenge", was once the most feared vessel ever to sail the high sea...

The Great Wall of China is more than just a part of history, it's part of the world's geography, a s...

Five hundred years before Columbus arrived, a metropolis flourished in North America. It was bigger...

In a cave by the Dead Sea, a copper scroll treasure map from the time of Jesus was found, promising...

The quest for the Holy Grail has consumed knights and crusaders, and has inspired legendary tales an...

Ramesses II was the most powerful pharaoh ever to rule Egypt, and his capital city, Pi-Ramesses, was...

Since its discovery nearly a century ago, archaeologists have been trying to unlock the secrets of K...

Around 360 B.C., the Greek philosopher Plato recorded the legend of Atlantis, the great civilization...

Inside the legendary city of Babylon in modern-day Iraq lie the remains of a vast structure, which a...

Over 2,000 years ago, Petra was a flourishing capital city in the Arabian Desert, but at some point,...

Stonehenge is a marvel of prehistoric architecture. For centuries, archaeologists have been piecing...

It remains one of the grisliest finds in ancient archaeology: the skeletons of over 80 battle-scarre...

It's one of the greatest and strangest stories ever told, the biblical tale of God unleashing 10 pla...

In the 1840s, Western explorers entered the Amazon rainforest and stumbled upon the ancient ritual o...

In Northern Europe, many ancient bog bodies have been discovered, spread across hundreds of square m...

On a hilltop in southeastern Turkey, archaeologists have unearthed a complex of standing stones that...

The story of Jonah and the Whale is one of the most famous, and most mysterious, tales in the Old Te...

From the 8th to 11th century, the Vikings ruled what is now Scandinavia and terrorized Northern Euro...

Until recently, the Egyptian pharaoh known as Psamtik I was little more than a footnote in history....

Egypt's Valley of the Kings is a royal cemetery unlike any other. For over 200 years, archaeologists...

Hierakonpolis was once one of the ancient world's forgotten cities, only of passing interest to arch...

In the Old Testament, Solomon was painted as a wise king who amassed a fortune. For centuries, histo...

Tutankhamun's tomb remains the greatest archaeological find of all time. For almost a century, its d...

It's a gruesome mass murder no one knew about until a 2011 excavation revealed the sinister secret....

The ancient Roman city of Pompeii is best known for the volcanic eruption that both buried and prese...

Ancient records marked a modest Tunisian coastal town as the location of a one-time thriving Roman m...

Not only was Cleopatra's Roman lover and protector Julius Caesar murdered in 44 B.C., but the world...

In 2006, a construction team in Italy stumbled upon an isolated skeleton from a Roman-era burial. Ex...

Cutting-edge technology and dedicated digging have unearthed new secrets about ancient Egypt's fable...

See how a 1,900-year-old battlefield in Scotland is revealing new insights into ancient Rome's milit...

Could a sunken, 9,000-year-old stone circle be the origins of the world's most famous prehistoric mo...

Follow archaeologists as they examine a tomb they hope will reveal the mysterious origins of the anc...

See why the discovery of strangely elongated skulls in an ancient cemetery is giving new insights in...

See how the gruesome discovery of a mutilated pharaoh in 2014 has rewritten the history of ancient E...