Earth is Mysterious

Megaliths are stone structures that were built by ancient peoples around the world for reasons which have largely been lost to us.

Genetic studies have revealed that Central Europeans, during the Neolithic, were genetically mixed between indigenous European hunter-gatherers and new incoming people with ancestry related to Western Anatolian early farmers

Some 2,000 years ago the ancient Maya worshiped Camazotz, a bat god that had the body of a person and the head of a bat.

The soldier was laid to rest wearing his clay likeness 2,100 years ago in a burial mound in Russia alongside the burned corpses of 200 other people.

The story of Indian art and sculpture dates back to the Indus valley civilization of the 2nd and 3rd millennium BCE. Tiny terra-cotta seals...

Built in the 6th century before Islam had traveled to the central Afghanistan region, the two Buddhas of Bamiyan were famous for their beauty, craftsmanship and of course, size. The taller of the two Buddhas stood at more than 170 feet high, with the second statue at nearly 115 feet. They were once the world’s largest standing Buddhas.

Most Indians today are well aware of the two famous ancient universities of India which also are one of the oldest universities in the world – Takshashila University (Taxila) and Nalanda. But are these the only knowledge centers that existed in ancient India?

1,000-year-old horseshoes, sleds, and tools are emerging from a shrinking ice patch in Norway, telling the story of the rise and fall of a mountain pass and the people who traveled along it.

German archaeologists have explored an ancient palace in Iraq that they could only access after the area was blown up by the Islamic State...