Dead heads: Turkish site reveals more evidence of neolithic ‘skull cult’
Fragments of carved bone unearthed at an ancient site on a Turkish hillside are evidence that the people who spent time there belonged to...
The Mummy: what our obsession with ancient Egypt reveals
Christina Riggs
With another version of The Mummy menacing cinemas, the “curse of the pharaohs” is back. Again. Hollywood’s determination to put marauding mummies...
5,000-Year-Old ‘Billboard’ of Hieroglyphs Contains a Cosmic Message
By Owen Jarus
Archaeologists have discovered a "billboard" of hieroglyphs carved into the rocks near the Egyptian village of El-Khawy. The symbols, which show a...
Hawking urges Moon landing to ‘elevate humanity’
By Pallab Ghosh
Prof Stephen Hawking has called for leading nations to send astronauts to the Moon by 2020. They should also aim to build...
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...
Scientists decide to bury 5,000-year-old lost city in Pakistan
Mohenjo Daro is threatened by the baking temperatures of the Indus Valley and the threat from tourists and terrorists
Archaeologists are trying to save the...
Mars-to-Earth-Mass Planet May Lurk in Outer Solar System: Planet 10
In the paper, University of Arizona researchers Dr. Kathryn Volk and Professor Renu Malhotra present compelling evidence of a yet-to-be-discovered planetary body with a...
Were the Ancient Egyptians Black or White?
Egyptologists, writers, scholars, and others, have argued the race of the ancient Egyptians since at least the 1970’s. Some today believe they were Sub-Saharan...
5,000 Years of Native American Moundbuilding
PHILADELPHIA, PA 2017—The Great Pyramids in Egypt, Stonehenge in England, and the Maya city of Teotihuacan were all built thousands of years ago. Add...
Morocco fossils push back the timeline on human origins
Fossilized remains found in Morocco might belong to our 300,000-year-old ancestors.
The skulls and bones could represent the earliest known fossils of Homo sapiens, the...