The ruins of a prehistoric skyscraper: New research is revealing how Cornish tin appears to have boosted a long-lost Bronze Age Mediterranean civilization. This aerial photo shows that civilization's ...

This video explores how ancient civilizations built things so advanced that even modern science cannot explain them. From ...

CNN’s Salma Abdelaziz visits the ancient sites of Karahantepe and Göbeklitepe in southeastern Turkey — two groundbreaking ...

Around 8,000 years ago, many civilizations thrived on plains that are now submerged by the North and Baltic seas. Now, scientists from a variety of northern European research institutions are ...

Analysis of a massive wooden monument has uncovered new secrets of Cahokia, America’s greatest lost civilization.

Archaeologists say they have discovered the ruins of what they believe are the boundaries of an ancient temple belonging to the mysterious Andean society of Tiwanaku that disappeared around AD 1000.

Archaeologists unearthed a massive trove of gold coins in the Czech Republic, minted by a long-lost civilization — with the site described by officials as "exceptional." The discovery was announced by ...

After the collapse of the Chalcolithic culture around 3500 BCE, people in Jordan’s Murayghat transformed their way of life, shifting from domestic settlements to ritual landscapes filled with dolmens, ...

ST. LOUIS — This summer, history resurfaces in a powerful and immersive way as POMPEII: THE EXHIBITION opens in Boeing Hall at the Saint Louis Science Center. Running from May 16 through September 15, ...