11+ hour, 3+ min ago   (249+ words) In the sands south of Cairo, archaeologists just opened a tomb that has sat untouched for over four thousand years, and what they found inside wasn't just old. It was oddly, almost impossibly, well preserved. A Spanish-Egyptian mission has unearthed…...

15+ hour, 1+ min ago   (361+ words) A monumental circle rose from the earth near a small Czech village nearly 6,500 years ago, built by hands that somehow understood the sky better than we'd ever expect. A circular monument built 6,500 years ago near the present-day municipality of Chleby,…...

15+ hour, 1+ min ago   (484+ words) 52,503 Roman artefacts and a burial site that defies any obvious explanation. In April 2010, metal detectorist Dave Crisp was sweeping a field near Frome, Somerset, when his equipment picked up an unusual signal about a foot below the surface. He uncovered…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (526+ words) For 40,000 years, no light or air entered this cave. A 13-meter chamber at the back of Vanguard Cave on the Rock of Gibraltar sat untouched for at least 40,000 years, its entrance buried under a collapse of sand. When archaeologists from…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (489+ words) Hidden away inside an Austrian crypt for centuries, a mysterious mummy has finally revealed why it survived when others did not. A remarkably preserved 18th-century mummy in an Austrian church crypt has revealed an embalming technique never previously documented by…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (443+ words) An engineer measured weathering at the Great Pyramid. His results push its construction back by millennia. The remaining casing stones were preserved due to one simple reason – they had been buried under sand before they could be removed from the…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (575+ words) A missing statue fragment lay buried for 96 years, ignored by nearly everyone who passed over it. When archaeologists finally uncovered it, they realized it belonged to something far bigger than they imagined. A statue of Ramesses II, split for nearly…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (862+ words) Birds appeared first. Then a forgotten lake surged back and erased vast stretches of farmland. The first clue came from the birds. Mallards flushed from tall green grasses. Coots left Vs across still water, while swallows fed on mosquitoes low…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (284+ words) Buried inside more than 10,000 ordinary-looking bone fragments from a cave in Romania was something archaeologists had been searching for without knowing it. Thousands of unremarkable bone scraps from a Romanian cave shelter have turned out to be something far more…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (658+ words) Forty feet of crushing darkness led a teenage explorer to something extraordinary hidden 140 feet underground. Ben Sands was just thirteen years old when he discovered a huge underground lake. He had crawled on his hands and knees for about forty…...