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...
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...
A coffin carrying the remains of a woman whose name nobody knew was lowered into the ground in western Germany in 2022. Around it stood students, teachers and local residents paying their respects. Fo...
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...
In a quiet field in northern Luxembourg, something glinted beneath the soil that did not belong to the present. At first, it looked like just another odd fragment of metal, easily overlooked in a land...
For centuries, the Great Wall of China has stood like a silent scar across mountains and deserts, carrying stories most people will never hear. Tourists see the stone paths and steep watchtowers. Hist...
A huge ancient stone city buried for thousands of years in northern China has just become even more mysterious. Archaeologists working at the Houchengzui Stone City in Inner Mongolia have uncovered a ...
Decades after the end of the Second World War, a quiet and deeply moving tradition continues across parts of Europe. In Belgium and the Netherlands, local families have taken it upon themselves to car...
In 1997, Soufrière Hills erupted and entombed the city of Plymouth on the island of Montserrat. The capital, which was once a bustling centre for commerce, was covered in many feet of ash and debris w...
In 2013, James Howells, an IT technician from Newport, Wales, accidentally threw away a hard drive containing the private keys to 8,000 Bitcoins. At that time, the cryptocurrency was worth roughly $8 ...