A Greek gadget discovered more than a century ago in a 2,100-year-old shipwreck not only tracked the motion of heavenly bodies and predicted eclipses, but also functioned as a sophisticated calendar and mapped the four-year cycle of the ancient Greek Olympics.

Agriculture's rise sparked widespread use of green stone beads as fertility charms and as protection against supernatural forces, scientists propose.

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