Artificial intelligence is helping to solve an ancient mystery from the Roman Empire. It involves scrolls from a library that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. CBS News' Chris Livesay ...

Could this be the biggest archaeological discovery of the century? Tune in to a special edition of MSNBC's "Ancient Mysteries," where we investigate the explosive claim that a long-forgotten mummy, ...

Scientists have found compelling new evidence that humans, not glaciers, brought Stonehenge’s bluestones to the site. Using ...

The history of the planet and the civilizations that have lived on it are among life’s greatest mysteries.People have roamed ...

Still, the “board game” framing has a quiet strength: it’s testable. Scholars can compare wear patterns, spatial logic, and symbol clustering against known game-board behaviors, rather than betting ...

Long before the Black Death killed millions across Europe in the Middle Ages, an earlier, more elusive version of the plague spread across much of Eurasia. For years, scientists were unsure how the ...

Ancient civilizations accomplished feats of engineering that continue to challenge modern understanding. Despite advances ...

STONEHENGE? THAT’S A GREAT QUESTION. WE’RE STILL TRYING TO FIGURE THAT OUT TODAY. AFTER ABOUT 90 YEARS OF RESEARCH, MY FAMILY GOT INVOLVED WITH US BACK IN 1955. SO IT’S BEEN A BEEN A LONG ROAD ON THIS ...

The pigment “Egyptian Blue” was invented about 5,000 years ago. It’s the world’s oldest known synthetic pigment. But it was lost to time, until recently. Scientists at Washington State University not ...

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

A multitude of mysteries remain unsolved about the ancient Greek world, providing more questions than answers.