Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, Bolivia, Egypt, Hawaii, Easter Island and other exotic places. With special ...

Centuries-old genetic material can solve historical mysteries, from lost species to what killed Napoleon’s army.

Monte Sierpe, translated as the “serpent mountain,” is located in the Pisco Valley of Southern Peru. The “Serpent Mountain” is known for its thousands of precisely aligned holes to resemble the look ...

Ninety-seven-million-year-old magnetic fossils, left behind in sea beds by an unknown creature, may have been a biological ...

Researchers have discovered chemical traces of life in rocks older than 3.3 billion years, offering a rare look at Earth’s ...

About 5,000 years ago, people living in what is now Iran began extracting copper from rock by processing ore, an activity ...

The mysterious Aztec "death whistles" have fascinated researchers with their eerie, terrifying effect they have on the ...

New research suggests the Band of Holes in southern Peru may have been first a market and later an Inca accounting device.

The Omo-Turkana basin in Africa is home to a treasure trove of ancient human fossils and tools that span 300,000 years – today it is still yielding new discoveries about our species ...

New research suggests that the holes were the site of an ancient marketplace, and Inca rulers may have used them as a ...

Dr Jacob Bongers at the University of Sydney, holding a drone. Credit: Stefanie Zingsheim/University of Sydney. The authors declare no conflicts of interest. This research was funded by a Franklin ...

Selection of the fragments from the Middle Kingdom metalworking remains. Credit: German Archaeological Institute, Cairo Department / CC BY 4.0 A new archaeological study has confirmed that ancient ...