Thirty feet (9.14 m) under the surface of the cold, murky Baltic Sea, Brendan Foley spotted something unusual in the wreckage of an ancient ship.

Piecing together fragments of the world's earliest known rune stone, which may be more than 2,000 years old, shows they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.

The so-called 'alien mummies' discovered in Peru, supposedly near the Nazca lines, have been dismissed as a hoax by skeptics and most of the scientific community, with claims that a definitive study r ...

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At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

The great civilizations of ancient Mesoamerica were incredibly active and productive, and new evidence of their industriousness and ambition has been discovered at a well-known archaeological hot spot ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

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The search for Amelia Earhart’s missing airplane has gone on for more than eight decades. Theories abound, but evidence of the legendary aviator’s ultimate fate has been hard to find.