Archeologists have confirmed the existence of ancient tunnels which run under the famous city of Cusco in Peru. Cusco which is a UNESCO world heritage site is formerly the capital of the Inca empire.

Cuzco, also spelled Cusco and named after the Quechua word for “naval or “center,” was built between the 11th and 12th centuries and became the capital of the Inca empire, according to ...

The ancient universities of India were intellectual powerhouses that attracted scholars from distant lands interested in studying mathematics and astronomy as well as philosophy and medicine.

Researchers aboard the E/V Nautilus recently discovered four rare Palau nautiluses, ancient cephalopods also known as "living fossils," in the deep waters near the German Channel. The sighting ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural ...

But using ice cores and other ancient data points allows scientists to peer much deeper into the past, and establish that the climate today is likely warmer than it has been in 120,000 years.

Piece by piece, experts carefully transported the Phoenician vessel to dry land, where it will be studied and preserved Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Archaeologists have raised a 2,600-year-old ...

The enigmatic Indus Valley civilization left behind a script that today's historians haven't yet deciphered. While amateur theories abound, scholars are increasingly relying on computer science to ...

The capacity for subjective experience, or sentience, is a defining feature of consciousness. An organism is considered sentient if “there is something it is like to be that organism.” 1 In ...