Carbon dating near the monument reveals a settlement occupied between 7,500 and 4,700 BC. ->

A miniscule bit of DNA from an African American man now living in South Carolina has been traced back 338,000 years. ->

An abundance of gold wreaths appear to lay hidden in a subway network in Greece. ->

The desert has always served as a vast and mysterious stage for many lost and hidden civilizations in pop culture folklore, from the lost city of Tanis in Raiders of the Lost Ark, to the Cave of Wonders in Disney's Aladdin, to Ubar, the "Atlantis of the Sands" in Uncharted 3. In real life, archaeol...

Recently, new satellite imagery detected a hidden kingdom in the Amazon that had eluded explorers for nearly 500 years. An aerial picture of traces of earthworks built by a lost Amazonian civilisation. Denise Schaan Some called it El Dorado, others, like Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett (a British ve...

An Egyptian excavation team has unearthed a 3,500-year-old door to the afterlife from the tomb of a high-ranking Egyptian official near Karnak temple in Luxor.

If you can't be one of the 2.5 million tourists who wander through the streets of Pompeii every year, you now have another option: Google's Street View. Pompeii on Street View The 360-degree panoramic street-level service debuted last week in the ancient Roman town that was buried in Mount Vesuvius...

They sleep under ancient Roman frescoes and walk on priceless mosaic floors, but they are far from living a privileged life. They are the dogs of Pompeii -- sick, starving, dirty and scruffy stray dogs who wander through the ruins of the volcano stricken Roman town. The poor animals have been livin...