3+ week, 4+ day ago   (695+ words) A tightly packed burial chamber on Luxor’s West Bank held painted coffins, mummies and sealed texts that archaeologists still have not fully deciphered. A pottery vessel found inside a rock-cut chamber on the Luxor West Bank held something archaeologists could…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (498+ words) Deep in a Turkish cave, archaeologists uncovered dozens of turtle-shaped stone carvings arranged in a way that suggests they weren't placed there by accident. What they mean, and why someone buried these mysterious figures thousands of years ago? Deep inside…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (636+ words) A highway survey in the Czech Republic was supposed to be routine. Instead, crews stumbled onto hidden gold that had remained untouched for over 2,000 years. While archaeologists were carrying out a completely routine survey of a site ahead of highway…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (334+ words) It took over two thousand years for this ancient well to reveal what was hiding at the bottom. Experts say it's unlike anything found before. What makes the discovery especially notable is preservation. Because the well remained underwater in a…...

3+ week, 15+ hour ago   (593+ words) A Sicilian fisherman went looking for a rock formation underwater. Instead, he found a wreck that authorities are now calling one of the most important underwater discoveries in recent years, and the full details are still being confirmed. A spearfisherman…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (842+ words) A stained Navy book pulled from the trash held a chilling 7:55 a.m. entry from Pearl Harbor’s darkest morning. As Tracylyn Sharrit helped her fiancé unpack his books in Hemet, California, one stained volume caught her eye. The spine identified it as…...

16+ hour, 15+ 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,…...

2+ week, 12+ hour ago   (706+ words) A diamond mine on Namibia’s coast uncovered a 500-year-old wreck, gold coins and traces of a vanished trading world. The desert was supposed to be holding diamonds. Instead, work along Namibia’s southern coast exposed evidence of a trading world that…...

2+ day, 11+ 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…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (429+ words) Deep in Egypt's Theban Necropolis, archaeologists uncovered a burial chamber packed with mummies spanning 700 years, hiding a bond between species that researchers are just beginning to understand. Theban Tomb 209 was originally built during the Twenty-fifth Dynasty, sometime between 754 and 656 BCE,…...