5+ day, 20+ 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…...

15+ hour, 2+ 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, 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…...

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, 13+ 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…...

2+ week, 10+ 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…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (403+ words) They digitally stripped away the forest near Machu Picchu and found roads hidden beneath the vegetation, revealing over 2.5 km of lost routes. More than 2.5 kilometers of previously undocumented roads have been found beneath the thick forest around Machu Picchu. Laser…...

11+ hour, 5+ 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…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (511+ words) Deep in a coastal necropolis in Sicily, archaeologists uncovered something they weren't expecting: an extraordinarily rare gold coin, untouched for over two thousand years. Archaeologists have discovered a rare Syracusan gold coin dating back to the fifth century BC during…...