Science News for Kids reports on a close-up examination of the crystal skulls that inspired the Hollywood blockbuster Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull suggests the artifacts, once thought to be some 500 years old, were made in the 19th or 20th century.

Date palm pit found at Masada sprouts at age 2,000, becoming the oldest known seed to germinate.

Sacrificial offerings in an ancient Mesopotamian building included a beheaded acrobat, a new skeletal analysis suggests.

Researchers say that Stonehenge functioned as the largest cemetery of its time.

Humans may have been walking around what is now central Mexico 40,000 years ago

The discovery of a 4,000-year-old gold necklace in Peru suggests that social elites and economic growth appeared in a surprisingly simple society.

Archaeologists have discovered evidence that people used a ceremonial altar to the ancient Greek god Zeus around 5,000 years ago, a millennium before Zeus worship originated.