The research team examined dozens of intact vessels and hundreds of diagnostic sherds, and backed up the use-wear observations with experimental reconstructions, showing that wax-filled replicas can ...

Researchers say a carefully prepared ergot fungus-based drink may explain the Eleusinian Mysteries in ancient Greece.

Thousands of years ago, people built things so advanced that even today’s experts can’t explain how. These ancient creations weren’t lucky guesses-they were brilliant, precise, and way ahead of their ...

Experts are still puzzling over a basalt stone tablet more than three years after discovering it near Lake Bashplemi in Georgia. According to their recent study published in the Journal of Ancient ...

The cone-shaped vessels that have puzzled archaeologists for decades – until now - Ancient vessels found to have soot ...

A Roman stone board game has been unplayable since its discovery more than a century ago, but AI might have just worked out ...

The 2,000-year-old Antikythera mechanism found in an ancient Greek shipwreck has been dubbed the “first computer,” using a wind-up dial system to track the celestial time of the Sun, Moon and five ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world is filled with ancient unexplained mysteries that capture the imagination, challenging scientists, scholars, and ...

A Roman-constructed food storage container that served as a primitive refrigerator for traveling soldiers was recently discovered in Bulgaria by Polish archeologists. Lead archeologist, Piotr Dyczek, ...

An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the younger had a rare inherited growth disorder, ...

(AP) - An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday. Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an ...

The aim of the "deceptively simple but thrilling strategy game" was to hunt and trap the opponent's pieces in as few moves as possible, scientists said.