civilization

NASA's Mars rover is hunting for signs of ancient life, but a new image has sparked claims it may have found the ruins of a lost civilization.A panorama was taken by Curiosity last month inside Gale Crater, the 96-mile-wide impact basin…

Scientists have issued a new blueprint for the day Earth receives a message from an alien civilization.Released Friday, the eight-point plan lays out how researchers should handle a potentially world-changing signal from deep space,…

The Bible warns that when a river flowing through the 'cradle of civilization' dries up, it could mark the start of events long tied to end-times prophecy. The Euphrates River, the longest river in Western Asia, is mentioned in the Book…

A vast stone temple built 1,000 years ago by one of South America's most powerful civilizations has been uncovered in the Andes.Archaeologists discovered the temple, known as Palaspata, atop a ridge in the remote highlands southeast of…

A 2,400-year-old tablet unearthed in Spain appears to be inscribed with an alphabetic sequence of 21 signs, predating the famous Rosetta Stone by 400 years.The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) made the 8-inch slate public last…

Skeptics have long questioned why UFOs, if they are alien craft, would visit Earth so often.But two Harvard scientists suspect the beings may have been here all along.In a new research paper, they estimate there is a one in 10 chance the…