The 1,500-year-old Pumapunku temple in western Bolivia is considered a crowning achievement of Andean architecture,…

Archaeologists have discovered two previously unknown forms of spearpoint technology at a site in Texas. The…

Over a hundred thousand years ago, Neanderthals used tar to bind objects together, yet scientists have struggled to…

Discovered in an ancient shipwreck near Crete in 1901, the freakishly advanced Antikythera Mechanism has been called…

As if the freakishly advanced Antikythera Mechanism wasn't astounding enough, a new analysis suggests the…

In this io9 flashback, we revisit a post about how X-rays and advanced photography uncovered the true complexity of…

Stonehenge. How the heck was it built? The latest theory, from a student, says since the Stone Age men didn't have…

Sometimes archaeologists find artifacts so mind-blowing they seem like evidence of lost civilizations or alien…

X-rays and advanced photography have uncovered the true complexity of the mysterious Antikythera mechanism, a…