Long seen as myth, an ancient Amazon civilization may have been fueled by a man-made soil. Scientists are racing to recreate the recipe, which they say might fight hunger and global warming.

Newly discovered fossils of the oldest known swimming turtles show the reptiles first took to water some 165 million years ago, researchers say.

Archaeologists exploring King Herod's tomb complex near Jerusalem have uncovered rare Roman paintings and two stone coffins that could have contained the remains of Herod's sons.

Fossils suggest that much of Alaska was formed from a patchwork of small land chunks that collected against North America between 251 million and 60 million years ago.

A mother, father, and two boys were buried facing each other, perhaps "to tell us that these people belong together," one scientist said.

A sealed space in Egypt's Great Pyramid may help solve a centuries-old mystery: How did the ancient Egyptians move two million 2.5-ton blocks to build the ancient wonder?

The first evidence of a nest from a carnivorous dinosaur related to birds has been discovered by a Canadian paleontology team.

A Jurassic "party" left more than a thousand footprints and rare tail-drag marks at an ancient oasis in Arizona, a new study says. But some experts doubt the marks were left by dinosaurs.

Early humans were giving birth to big-brained infants much earlier than previously thought, suggests a 1.2-million-year-old pelvis from a Homo erectus female.

A previously buried 4,300-year-old pyramid in Egypt has been found by archaeologists—the tomb of Queen Sesheshet.

Long buried by deep sands, the once five-story-tall pyramid is a testament to a pharaoh's reverence for his mother, experts say.

An amazingly well preserved gold, pearl, and emerald earring has been discovered beneath a former parking lot outside Jerusalem's Old City.

A newfound underground labyrinth filled with stone temples and pyramids—some underwater—likely relates to Maya myths of a road through "hell" to the afterlife, archaeologists say.

The Maya believed the road to the afterlife ran through the underworld. Now an archaeologist says he's found the real-life version of that road in a Mexican cave.

Newfound rock art paintings in northern Australia may reveal that peoples from neighboring Indonesia traded with Aborigines centuries before the arrival of the British.