For centuries, the ancient Maya have been celebrated for their remarkable achievements in astronomy, mathematics and calendar-making. They tracked the movements of planets with extraordinary precision...
pc: Haaretz( Assaf Peretz/Israel Antiquities Authority) Across the landscapes of the eastern Mediterranean, traces of Roman life continue to surface in unexpected places. A fragment of wall, a forgott...
Wars may be a vital part of history, but they mostly remain in books. In the rare moments when they materialise through evidence such as tools and weapons, humanity stands shocked over its own past. C...
A prehistoric hilltop enclosure in southern Spain has presented archaeologists with two very different moments in history occupying the same place. What first appeared to be the remains of an ancient ...
Nearly two and a half centuries have passed since soldiers gathered on a grassy rise overlooking Fort Ticonderoga and listened as a newly declared nation introduced itself to the world. The hill remai...
5,000-year-old Solstice monument unearthed near Stonehenge in Wiltshire / Image – file Archaeologists have uncovered what could be an early prototype of Stonehenge, a remarkable 5,000-year-old m...
The Akrotiri evacuation remains one of archaeology’s most uncomfortable puzzles because it does not behave like a disaster site. On Santorini, where a massive volcanic eruption buried entire settlemen...
The remains of one of medieval Europe’s most influential queens have been examined for the first time in nearly 700 years after archaeologists opened her tomb at the Royal Monastery of Santa Mar...
Deep beneath the sands of Egypt’s Saqqara necropolis, a discovery has started drawing attention again to how much is still buried in plain sight. Archaeologists reportedly uncovered a sealed tomb cont...
A lost ‘Silk Road’ city found beneath Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan stuns archaeologists | World News
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a large medieval settlement on the lakebed of Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, that rewrites our understanding of trading routes in Central Asia. The settlemen...