Ancient News

Archeologists are puzzled over a giant stone structure found beneath the Sea of Galilee in Israel. The structure appears to be extremely large in size. Researchers are not certain of its age nor why it was built.

Underneath the sands of Mauritius, located in the Indian Ocean, lays a secret. Deep beneath the sands lays an ancient continent.

Researchers have released a study that outlines insect travel behavior millions of years old that they believe probably still occurs but had never been documented.

Archaeologists in Greece discovered a 230-foot section of an ancient road that the Romans built. The road was uncovered in Greece's second-largest city.

A team of international researchers say they have uncovered ancient fossilized elephant footprints. The researchers say the prints are 7-million-years old.

A new discovery in Peru suggests early inhabitants ate corn 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. An unearthing of ancient corncobs, husks, stalks and tassels were unearthed and date back approximately 6,700 to 3,000 years ago.

The Kung-Fu Taiwan puppetry known as potehi or budaixi is part of a feature length documentary film titled "PuppetVision: The Movie." Potehi is glove puppet art, a 3,000-year old artistic skill that originated from ethnic Chinese nomads.

Amman - Jordanian officials have made a startling claim about a set of ancient “codices”, or books that might be the earliest Christian literature dating from shortly after the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth.

Cairo - As the crisis in Egypt continues, experts have expressed concern that the country’s priceless archaeological heritage could come under threat from vandals and looters, who have already stolen some of the country’s precious antiquities.

Lima - A 1,200-year-old royal tomb belonging to the pre-Inca Sican Culture has been discovered in Peru’s coastal Lambayeque region, according to the director of the Las Ventanas archaeological dig.