The dust-covered relic emerges from the earth, promising to rewrite history books and challenge everything we thought we knew ...

An ancient tomb dating to 600AD unearthed in southern Mexico has been hailed as the “most significant archaeological discovery in a decade” by the country’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo. The ...

Ancient graffiti written in Indian languages has been uncovered on tomb walls in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, scholars have revealed. One enthusiastic visitor named Cikai Korran left his mark eight ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a metre-long bony fish with jaws full of clusters of ...

Original photograph of the artefact published in 1927 by Guy Brunton (left) and the actual artefact, photo by Martin Odler Guy Brunton/Martin Odler Production of this article included the use of AI.