Archaeology

The centuries-old remains at Notre Dame have been identified as Joachim du Bellay, a French Renaissance poet who died at age 37.

Scientists used AI to find 303 never-before-seen geoglyphs in Peru's Nazca Desert, including abstract humanoid figures, ancient ceremonies, "decapitated heads" and a "killer whale holding a knife."

This series of paintings, found inside a cave in the Sahara, shows a pair of swimmers.

The martial artifacts found at the temple complex were likely offerings that an ancient kingdom made to their chief god.

Being a Roman gladiator was a bloody business, but did all gladiators really fight to the death?

Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by fossils of long-extinct reptiles.

No one knows for sure when steel was invented, but some of the earliest examples crop up in the first millennium B.C. in Central and South Asia.

Builders knew how to keep people cool in hot, dry climates thousands of years ago. It's time to get that knowledge back.

The people who created the Pitted Ware Culture may have used seal hides to build boats.

Researchers unexpectedly found traces of cocaine in the mummified brain tissue of 17th-century people buried in a crypt in Milan.