For decades, the ancient shark known as Ptychodus puzzled paleontologists. Its unusual flat teeth looked very different from those of modern sharks. Scientists struggled to understand what this ...

Asteroid hit North Sea: A long-standing scientific debate has finally been resolved: the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea was formed by a massive asteroid impact around 43–46 million years ago.

Researchers in France have discovered a missing page from the legendary Archimedes palimpsest, a centuries-old manuscript ...

A 3,400-year-old lost city has resurfaced, revealing 'Golden' secrets of ancient empires and rewriting human history.

Police in Karachi have resolved the mystery surrounding a statue with a satanic appearance that was recovered from a shop in the city’s Mehran Town area after a viral video triggered public concern. A ...

The origins of a bronze coin that someone used to pay for a bus journey in Leeds in the 1950s have been revealed after more than 70 years. The remarkable piece was discovered by James Edwards, who ...

Has the Atlantis mystery finally been solved? A new book reveals that Plato based his story on a real setting, now beneath 400 feet of water.

A rare Roman temple dedicated to mystery cult deity Mithras was discovered in Germany, with the oldest-known sanctuary in Bavaria dating to the first or second centuries A.D.

National Geographic archaeologist George E. Stuart reported in 1975 on the scientists who sought to decode the ancient language—and the looters who stood in their way.