Thousands of 12,500-year-old rock paintings dubbed the "Sistine Chapel of the ancients" have been found in the Amazon jungle.

Palmyra is one of the most famous sites in Syria for its extraordinary heritage and archaeological remains. Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1980, the city saw much of its heritage destroyed ...

Crops don't generally thrive in desert-like ground, but 1000 years ago farmers in Israel utilised refuse such as ash and ...

The 2,000-year-old basilica was “once the beating heart of Roman London,” the Museum of London Archaeology said.

It’s long been rumored that a network of old, underground tunnels lies beneath Cusco, Peru, the capital of the ancient Incan ... which has helped many Inca sites survive centuries of natural ...

Brinkmann spent time in Mauthausen, Ebensee and Auschwitz camps, repeatedly finding ways to escape death at each site. “While in Auschwitz he ... zero temperatures for four hours at a time. “He ...

525-pound bear found in crawl space of home that survived LA wildfires It took a team of about eight people and nearly 24 hours to remove the bear. By Génesis Miranda Miramontes • Published ...

The aviation disaster near Washington DC has brought up memories of another crash into the Potomac River 43 years ago – the Air Florida Flight 90. The search at the crash site of the American ...

Among the 23 people were killed were eight Man U players and three team officials. Among those who survived was England great Bobby Charlton. U.S. Figure Skating team On Feb 15, 1961, a commercial ...

New research suggests that temperatures on ancient Mars may have fluctuated ... its warmth and held on to its water billions of years ago. "It's been such a puzzle that there was liquid water ...

On the night of Wednesday, Jan. 29, an American Airlines regional passenger aircraft collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopter over the Potomac River, the same site of another tragic plane crash ...