How ancient China and Egypt developed similar structures
Although ancient Egypt and China never communicated with each other, they had many things in common. The exhibition "China and Egypt. Cradles of the World" shows inventions made in both countries a long time...
Life on Mars? Study Showing Martian Soil Kills Bacteria Dims Hopes
Jessica Wapner
Recent images and other compelling evidence that water once flowed on Mars have generated hope of finding microbial life there. That hope has been dealt a blow by a new study showing...
Ancient Civilization Lies Frozen Beneath Antarctica? Atlantis?
JENNIFER HALE
Rumors of a hidden city have been floating about for years, as conspiracy theorists and even some scientists claim the freezing continent is actually the home of the legendary Lost City of Atlantis. One...
Archive Weekend Update – 07-14-2017
The Archive Weekend Update in a series that will compile and highlight news stories from the week related to the topic of Ancient Astronaut Hypothesis. The Archive will also review its releases for the...
NASA disputes Anonymous claim it has found alien life
By Ray Kelly
E.T. has not phoned home.
A viral video purportedly from the hacker activist group Anonymous claimed that NASA is poised to announce that it has found proof of alien life.
The 12-minute video, sprinkled with...
Archive Weekend Update – 07-07-2017
The Archive Weekend Update in a series that will compile and highlight news stories from the week related to the topic of Ancient Astronaut Hypothesis. The Archive will also review its releases for the...
Cahokia, America’s Great City
Alice B. Kehoe
Larger than London or Paris in its time, what is now America’s heartland had a magnificent city between 1030 and 1200 CE. Now known as Cahokia, the city occupied the wide floodplain...
Ancient Maya developed super highways network more than 1,000 years ago
Roads of more than 240 kilometers long designed, traced and built by the ancient Maya have been discovered in Guatemala, near the border with Mexico.
El Mirador is a late Maya preclassic city, located in Guatemala,...
Australian dig finds evidence of Aboriginal habitation up to 80,000 years ago
By Helen Davidson
Artefacts in Kakadu national park have been dated between 65,000 and 80,000 years old, extending likely occupation of area by thousands of years
A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in Australia’s north has...
History’s 1st Emoji? Ancient Pitcher Shows a Smiley Face
By Laura Geggel
The iconic smiley face may seem like a modern squiggle, but the discovery of a smiley face-like painting on an ancient piece of pottery suggests that it may be much older.
During an...