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, 5+ 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…...

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…...

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, 3+ day ago   (303+ words) For 3,000 years, her mouth has never closed. Discovered decades ago in an Egyptian tomb, this mummy's face was frozen in an expression so extreme that experts assumed something had gone terribly wrong during her burial The mummy of an elite…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (567+ words) A sickle crossed her neck and a padlock bound her toe. Four centuries later, scientists revealed her face. When Zosia died, she was estimated to be about 18-20 years old. Media accounts referred to her final rest as a “grave of…...

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…...

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…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (426+ words) Using technology that can see through solid jungle canopy, a team of researchers has uncovered nearly two miles of ancient roads near Machu Picchu, winding toward structures no one knew existed on a part of the mountain long assumed to…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (506+ words) Some discoveries are made in laboratories. These ancient tools were found by a kid on vacation who noticed what others almost missed. A boy who once dug curious black stones out of the mud during a family vacation has grown…...