Beneath Denver International Airport lies a time capsule sealed until 2094, marked by a plaque from the mysterious “New World ...

Ice Age Europeans carved the same 32 symbols across an entire continent. Were they decorating caves—or building the first written language?

An archaeologist has told the Daily Mail about extraordinary new evidence of an advanced civilization that once called the ...

Abstract: We propose to perform image-based ancient coin classification by recognizing symbols minted on the reverse side of coins. Dense sampling based bag-of-visual-words model is used for symbol ...

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

What hidden messages might other occult symbols convey? Are you ready to read the signs? Here, we decode five mystical ...

A statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike that was toppled by demonstrators in 2020 following George Floyd’s death was ...

Think of Roman engineering, and it might be the grandest feats that first come to mind: the towering aqueducts bringing water to towns and cities, the amphitheatres filled with cheering crowds, and ...

In ancient Chinese astronomy, the sky ecliptic was divided into four sections. Each of these sections contained seven mansions, and together they formed the 28 Mansions. The 28 Mansions may be ...

Our journey begins with the Freemasons. This late sixteenth century group occupies a strange, almost mythical place in modern popular culture and, while evoking many conspiracies, the self-proclaimed ...

Saracens defeating mercenaries in the service of Byzantium at the Battle of Yarmouk (636 AD) according to a 14th-century illustrated manuscript. The flags of the crescent moon and star can be seen.