Historians are occasionally forced to revise their preconceived notions after discovering something hidden in the shadows and ...

Vanilla beans begin as the seedpods of a tropical orchid (left); Chocolate is made from the seeds hidden inside the fruit of the cacao tree (right). Florilegius / SSPL / Getty Images Of all the great ...

Archaeologists are stunned after discovering a more than 3,000-year-old axe in Indonesia that shows signs of extraterrestrial origin. Believed to be a Bronze Age relic, the conical axe was forged from ...

Ancient Egyptians were getting inked up earlier than we thought. A new analysis of two mummies shows the pair were sporting tattoos. The mummies belong to a collection of six found in 1900. They were ...

DNIPRO, Ukraine — Belching diesel exhaust, a bulldozer cut into a 4,000-year-old burial mound, peeling back the soil to reveal the mysteries hidden inside, including a skeleton. For archaeologists, ...