Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier ...

A 3,800-year-old clay figure found in Peru may be the oldest Latin American civilization artifact, offering insight into the ...

The Fat Lady of Saliagos (also known as The Naked Lady of Saliagos) is the oldest known Cycladic sculpture. It is a marble ...

Beneath the rolling hills of West Java, Indonesia, lies a site that could challenge the very timeline of human civilization. Known as Gunung Padang, or the "mountain of enlightenment" by the local ...

After eight years of research, experts have unearthed 18 structures so far, including residential homes and ceremonial temples. Experts believe the city—since named Peñico—was once a thriving urban ...

Archaeologists excavating some 4,000-year-old ruins in Peru found a circular altar used for ceremonial burns, officials said and photos show. Photo from Peru’s Ministry of Culture At the base of an ...

The burial was discovered in the remains of a building in an ancient fishing town. Peru Ministry of Culture Around 5,000 years ago, members of an ancient Peruvian Indigenous group buried an elite ...

Several nations, including Iran, Egypt, and Vietnam, stand out in 2025 for their remarkable longevity and historical ...

Is this the real-life Atlantis? A 90-foot “pyramid” submerged just off the coast of Japan is turning heads — and could shake up everything we thought we knew about ancient civilizations. Sitting 82 ...

At the base of an ancient pyramid in Peru, archaeologists knelt and painstakingly brushed away the rocky soil covering some ruins. The circular structure that reemerged turned out to be a ...