A rock shelter known as Spirit Cave overlooks Nevada’s Lahontan Basin. A burial discovered there held a man whose mummified remains are the oldest known in the world. Genetic testing has established ...

Discovery Channel’s popular show “Expedition Unknown” was on site to document the discovery of 12 human skeletons and ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

What did a vulture-bone flute sound like inside a cave? How about singing inside a tomb? Researchers are bringing ancient ...

Hugh Laurie has been tapped as the male lead opposite Amy Poehler in the Peacock comedy series Dig, which reunites Poehler ...

Qin-era carved stone proven authentic through advanced analysis, revealing ancient Kunlun mission and inspiring new preservation efforts.

Cave and swords, Ein Gedi, Israel(Courtesy Eitan Klein, Israel Antiquities Authority) Why the swords were hidden in the cave is unknown, although a coin found near the entrance may provide some clues.

The film ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’, about the Death Railway, takes place in the jungle on the border between Burma and ...

The limestone canyons along the Pecos River in southwest Texas are covered in ancient art. Painted by unidentified Indigenous ...

Kenneth Ducatel, great-great grandson of British army officer and artist Robert Gill, who documented and painted Ajanta ...

Robert Gill is remembered for painstakingly documenting and painting the Ajanta murals at a time when the world was largely ...

In 1947, a chance discovery by Bedouin shepherds uncovered a library frozen in time — the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest ...