Archaeologists have made a startling discovery in Iraq with a potential to rewrite the known human history.Experts have found ...

Incredible new discoveries in the Yucatan rainforest are rewriting the history of the ancient Maya. Hidden beneath thick layers of jungle, a vast network of meticulously built roads has been uncovered ...

Archaeologists and scientists continue to debate whether humans were truly the first advanced civilization on Earth.

Another underwater enigma often compared to Cuba’s “lost city” is the Yonaguni monument off Japan’s coast. Discovered in the 1980s, the massive stone formation sits around 90 feet underwater and ...

National Geographic Explorer Albert Lin and his team utilized cutting edge LiDAR technology which can create 3D recreations of these ancient civilizations once thought lost to the sands of history.

An illustration by Sir Gerald Hargreaves shows a utopian scene on a cove of the mythical land of Atlantis. Many scholars ...

The Tiwanaku civilization was one of the first and most powerful in the Andes region, but by 1000 A.D., it had collapsed.

One possible reason why we haven't found any intelligent life in the cosmos the Great Filter argument, which says that very few civilizations make it to the advanced spacefaring stage.

A local government in India is offering a $1 million prize to the first person who cracks the code of an ancient script found in the ruins of one of the world's earliest civilizations.