About 2,000 years ago, the powerful ancient kingdom of the Nabataeans hand-carved a city into the sandstone cliffs of Petra, […]
Category: archaeology
Chamber discovered deep within Great Pyramid of Giza could be missing piece of the puzzle
They’re renowned for their remarkable works of art and architecture, but experts are also intrigued by the significant gaps they […]
Jamestown DNA helps solve a 400-year-old mystery and unexpectedly reveals a family secret
An ancient DNA (aDNA) study at the 17th-century English colony of Jamestown, Virginia, has identified two of the town’s earliest […]
The ‘origins of Atlantis’ discovered off the coast of Lanzarote
. The find is so significant that experts are hailing the landmasses as the potential inspiration for one of history’s […]
A Teenager Discovered a Ring on a Hike—Turns Out, It’s 1,800 Years Old
Luke Whiteson, a 13-year-old aspiring archaeologist from Haifa, Israel, found a 1,800-year-old ring while hiking near an archaeological site on […]
‘The real Atlantis’ discovered off the coast of Greece
It’s much older than its mythical equivalent. Pavlopetri is believed to be around 5,000 years old, but it wasn’t found […]
Strange ‘Stonehenge’ discovered in US lake that’s 5,000 years older than the British landmark
. remains one of these great mysteries, with experts around the world divided over why exactly the prehistoric monument was […]