When Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and his Spanish troops returned to Europe from the Americas in the late 15th century, they notoriously brought back the deadly pathogen responsible for syphilis.

At 630 feet deep, the sinkhole would hide the Washington Monument and then some. The bottom of the pit holds an ancient forest spanning nearly three football fields in length, with trees towering over 100 feet high. And according to the Chinese government, it is one of 30 enormous sinkholes in the county.

Archaeologist Ivan Šprajc has spent nearly 30 years uncovering long-lost cities buried deep in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. His latest discovery is capturing the world's attention.

Ancient bones at a fish processing factory reveal the civilisation may have caused the beasts to go extinct in the Mediterranean 2,000 years ago

Experts say the flatbread depicted in the 2,000 year-old fresco may be a precursor to the Italian dish.

Artifacts from ancient Egyptian culture reveal a culture that was far less puritanical about oral sex than we are

An English Heritage site found over 50 tweezers during a dig in Wroxeter, England, highlighting the Romans' obsession with "manscaping."

An analysis of bracelets owned by ancient Egyptian royalty more than 4,500 years ago has found Egypt and Greece were involved in long-distance trade much earlier than realised.

A cycle featured in Maya calendars has been a mystery pretty much since it was rediscovered and its deciphering began in the 1940s.

The realization that people have long eaten putrid foods has archaeologists rethinking what Neandertals and other ancient hominids ate.

We humans may no longer have tails, but perhaps we have more in common with our smaller primate relatives than we thought.

Archaeologists have revealed a group of structures discovered at the famed Mayan Chichen Itza archaeological site in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, believed to have been part of a housing complex inhabited by the elite of the sacred city founded in the 5th Century AD.

An unknown species of human apparently mastered obsidian, something it had been thought only occurred in the Stone Age.

Dubbed the "Waziri papyrus," scholars are currently translating the text into Arabic.

Research finds secret of durability of buildings such as the Pantheon could be in the techniques used at the time

Ben Bacon is "effectively a person off the street," but he and his academic co-authors think they've found the earliest writing in human history.

Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans first arrived in the Americas. That’s good science and here’s why

Archaic humans may have worked out how to sail across the sea to new lands as far back as nearly half a million years ago.

Findings this month of geoglyphs, which date back more than 2,000 years, are smaller and can be seen from the ground

The National Archaeological Museum’s Unseen Museum welcomes a 3rd-century AD funerary monument dedicated to a pet dog.