1+ hour, 32+ min ago   (483+ words) A body pulled from the Arctic ice in 1859 has finally been given a name. Researchers at the University of Waterloo have used DNA from living descendants to identify four more sailors from Sir John Franklin‘s doomed 1845 expedition, among them…...

18+ hour, 3+ min ago   (249+ words) In the sands south of Cairo, archaeologists just opened a tomb that has sat untouched for over four thousand years, and what they found inside wasn't just old. It was oddly, almost impossibly, well preserved. A Spanish-Egyptian mission has unearthed…...

22+ hour ago   (361+ words) A monumental circle rose from the earth near a small Czech village nearly 6,500 years ago, built by hands that somehow understood the sky better than we'd ever expect. A circular monument built 6,500 years ago near the present-day municipality of Chleby,…...

22+ hour ago   (484+ words) 52,503 Roman artefacts and a burial site that defies any obvious explanation. In April 2010, metal detectorist Dave Crisp was sweeping a field near Frome, Somerset, when his equipment picked up an unusual signal about a foot below the surface. He uncovered…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (526+ words) For 40,000 years, no light or air entered this cave. A 13-meter chamber at the back of Vanguard Cave on the Rock of Gibraltar sat untouched for at least 40,000 years, its entrance buried under a collapse of sand. When archaeologists from…...

3+ day, 2+ min ago   (489+ words) Hidden away inside an Austrian crypt for centuries, a mysterious mummy has finally revealed why it survived when others did not. A remarkably preserved 18th-century mummy in an Austrian church crypt has revealed an embalming technique never previously documented by…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (575+ words) A missing statue fragment lay buried for 96 years, ignored by nearly everyone who passed over it. When archaeologists finally uncovered it, they realized it belonged to something far bigger than they imagined. A statue of Ramesses II, split for nearly…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (657+ words) For more than 300 million years, a piece of Earth’s ancient history remained hidden beneath the surface. A new discovery inside a U.S. cave is now revealing the sharks that once lived in a vanished world. Deep beneath Kentucky, scientists have uncovered…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (506+ words) Some discoveries are made in laboratories. These ancient tools were found by a kid on vacation who noticed what others almost missed. A boy who once dug curious black stones out of the mud during a family vacation has grown…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (842+ words) A stained Navy book pulled from the trash held a chilling 7:55 a.m. entry from Pearl Harbor’s darkest morning. As Tracylyn Sharrit helped her fiancé unpack his books in Hemet, California, one stained volume caught her eye. The spine identified it as…...