We may have grown up thinking it was true, but Columbus was not the first European to make contact with North America when he sailed the ocean blue in 1492. Norse sailors had been crossing the Atlantic for centuries by that time, but new research suggests it may have been for even longer than thought.
In Panoria, in the province of Granada in Spain lies a rock necropolis that is truly ancient. At 5,600 years old, it was constructed well before the Egyptians got started with their pyramids. There are many questions still unanswered about the complex, the people who built it and their society, but now we have one
Something new has been discovered in an ancient Egyptian tomb. A hidden chamber set into the rock wall has been uncovered, seemingly entirely by accident. The burial chamber was found during cleaning work on the tomb, undertaken by a joint team from Sohag University and the Free University of Berlin, according to the Egyptian Ministry
A farmer excavating a field to plant trees has found something he did not expect: 84 square meters of exquisite Roman mosaic floor which may be as old as the Late Roman Period. This would place it between the 4th and 6th centuries AD, created either by the Romans in the period before the fall
Archaeologists excavating ruins in Pañamarca in Peru have discovered what is being described as a throne room. The site is home to the Moche, a Peruvian culture that died out over 1,500 years ago. The Moche dominated the coastal region in northern Peru, and are famed for their highly decorative painted designs, filled with lurid
The story of the ships HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, and the doom that awaited them in Canada’s frozen north, is among the most harrowing in history. The two ships, and the men who sailed in them, met with tragedy on the Franklin expedition trying to find a navigable Arctic route to the Pacific, and