Shilajit is a natural herbomineral. It develops through the gradual decomposition of plant matter and microbial life trapped between layers of rock in the Himalaya region. The time period for this to ...

A windswept mound on England’s Cumbrian coast may conceal one of the most sought-after Viking burials in Britain: the grave of Ivarr “the Boneless”, a feared 9th-century war leader linked to the Great ...

Lost Alexandria on the Tigris Emerges from Iraq’s Dust. A “forgotten Alexandria” on the Tigris is being pulled back into focus by archaeologists using drones and geophysics, ...

Delicate paper flowers, cut, painted, and layered like small rosettes, survived for roughly a millennium after being sealed inside a cave on China’s Silk Road. The discovery is a reminder that ...

Two unassuming pieces of wood recovered from a prehistoric lakeshore in southern Greece have become a headline-grabbing rarity - the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dated to around 430,000 years ...

The research team revisited the remains of the richly buried adolescent from Arene Candide Cave in Liguria, northwest Italy, using detailed surface inspection and microscopic assessment of healing.

A double burial found in southern Italy more than 60 years ago has just yielded a striking new secret: ancient DNA has confirmed a rare inherited form of dwarfism in a teenage girl who lived around 12 ...

A new, non-peer-reviewed report argues that Egypt’s Great Pyramid may be far older than the familiar Old Kingdom timeline, proposing an age in the order of tens of thousands of years. The claim hinges ...

The two basic characteristics of the Nephilim, namely that they were children of the so-called Sons of God and that they were fallen ones, are attested to in other versions of the same anciet ...

Most reliquary crosses are found broken, opened, or separated, which strips away key information about how they were made and used. This one is different: it’s a two-part cross permanently sealed with ...

Three hundred years after Christ, in the middle of a grappling Roman Empire, a small group of men and women left their cities in search of the quiet desolation of the Egyptian desert to become the ...

One of the most tangible examples is the survival of large ceramic bathtubs associated with Hittite-period contexts. A photographed terracotta tub from Kültepe (Old-Hittite, 19th or 18th century BC) ...