Throughout history, humanity has left behind enigmatic traces that continue to baffle researchers and challenge our ...

The iconic Pyramids of Giza are already one of the world's greatest enigmas. Last month the mystery deepened when a team of Italian scientists said they found a vast city stretching thousands of feet ...

The famed “Band of Holes” known as Monte Sierpe in the Andes of Peru have puzzled scientists for a century. New research suggests the holes were the site of an ancient marketplace. The Inca rulers may ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient civilizations were dropping technological bombshells long before Silicon Valley existed. Just this year, archaeologists in ...

The winged serpent in Ancient Greece reveals a profound, long-forgotten link between distant ancient civilizations.

Archaeologists must have one of the coolest jobs ever—as long as a lifetime of digging around in the dirt yields some epic results, like priceless artifacts, treasure-filled tombs, or groundbreaking ...

As the son of archaeologists, National Geographic Explorer David Stuart spent his childhood wandering ancient Maya ruins—and helped shape what we know about the civilization today.

Long before the Inka (commonly known as Inca in English) rose to power, a mysterious civilization bloomed on the edge of Lake Titicaca. Known as Tiwanaku, it began as a humble farming village in the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The discovery of an ancient Tiwanaku temple in Bolivia is helping researchers paint a more complete picture of what the society once looked like. The ...

Here's how artists and designers have borrowed from the ancient civilization's rich visual vocabulary. A recreation of King Tutankhamun's death mask, on view at "Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his ...