"This has enabled us to solve a great deal of criminal mysteries by using the DNA techniques, especially in cases related to kinship. Through fluids in the human body like saliva and blood or body ...

The world is filled with ancient unexplained mysteries that capture the imagination, challenging scientists, scholars, and visitors alike. Archeologists attempt to identify and explain the purpose ...

The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but recent research shows how it matches up to ...

Archaeologists have finally revealed the meaning of the text inscribed on an ancient Turkish monument known as Arslan Kaya. The 2,600-year-old monument, whose name translates to “Lion's Rock ...

Ancient fossils which date back to a period between 39,800 and 54,600 years ago offer a fascinating insight into the habits ...

Now with the aid of forensic techniques we may be closer than ever to understanding this ancient mystery. King Tut’s skeleton has been dismantled and stuck back together, photographed and x ...

The larger effort to map the history of the Leicester Cathedral burial grounds displays burials from a stretch of 850 years, ...

Scientists believe they may have solved the mystery of how 31 pyramids ... pyramids are likely to have been built along a long-lost, ancient branch of the River Nile - which is now hidden under ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of the origins of ancient baobab trees. According to DNA studies, the iconic trees first arose in Madagascar 21 million years ago. Their seeds were later carried ...

Scientists at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History have peered beneath the wrappings of ancient Egyptian mummified ... But the biggest mystery about the Egyptian was how she was placed ...

WARWICK, R.I.--A handful of coins unearthed from a pick-your-own-fruit orchard in rural Rhode Island and other random corners of New England may help solve one of the planet’s oldest cold cases.