For generations, the Giza Plateau has been examined from almost every angle imaginable. Excavations, historical records and modern surveying have steadily filled gaps in what is known about Egypt̵...
pc: Discover Magazine (Image Credit: Dr Stephen Chester) A tiny tooth can disappear between your fingertips without much effort. Yet some of the earliest clues to our own evolutionary story come from ...
Some trees are remarkable simply because of how long they have been standing. The monkey puzzle tree, known scientifically as Araucaria araucana, belongs to a lineage so ancient that its ancestors sha...
A routine family outing along the Suffolk coast turned into an unexpected encounter with Britain’s distant prehistoric past when an 11-year-old boy noticed an unusual object lying close to the w...
A PhD student, scrolling through publicly available survey material from a Mexican environmental project, noticed shapes that didn’t sit comfortably with the idea of untouched jungle. The files had be...
The landscape along the western edge of the Peloponnese has never stayed entirely still. Coastlines shifted, wetlands expanded and receded, and places that once sat beside open water gradually became ...
We often think of education as something that happens inside classrooms, ends with a certificate, and is mostly about passing exams. Plato, one of the greatest thinkers who ever lived, saw it very dif...
On a low stretch of countryside not far from Stonehenge, where the road from Bulford cuts across open grassland, archaeologists have been piecing together something that never quite forms a full pictu...
A narrow stone corridor cut directly into a cliff face in south-western China continues to astonish visitors centuries after it was created. Hidden within the vast complex of the Dazu Rock Carvings, t...
For decades, archaeologists suspected that a strange landscape hidden in the Spanish Pyrenees was more than a product of nature. Deep trenches, artificial ravines and enormous excavated areas hinted a...