The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...

In two of the most forbidding landscapes on Earth—the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula and the Nazca Desert of ...

The team that uncovered hidden structures beneath Egypt's Giza pyramids has released new evidence they say leaves little room ...

The recent discovery of over 100 previously unknown structures in Peru’s Rio Abiseo National Park has shed new light on the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered over 100 previously unknown structures in the remote Rio Abiseo National Park in Peru ...

Tourism has been a part of human history for centuries, although the concept as we understand it today has evolved over time. The term "tourist" has been in ...

An immense Bronze Age settlement has emerged from the Kazakh Steppe, revealing a surprisingly urban and industrial society ...

Researchers have uncovered extensive pre-Hispanic settlements hidden beneath the waters and vegetation of Bolivia's Great Tectonic Lakes. Using advanced LiDAR technology and collaborative fieldwork ...

"Time to Cast Away Stones" by artist Stephen Kaltenbach is an eye-catching array of differing broken stone faces atop two ...

A 3,000-year-old gold mining operation uncovered in Egypt’s Sukari Mountains reveals hidden secrets about the ancient world.

How could the principle of "radical mundanity" proposed by the Fermi paradox help explain why humans haven't found evidence of extraterrestrial technological civilizations (ETCs)? This is what a ...

For some reason, we’ve long been obsessed with the idea of lost cities and advanced hidden civilizations. A classic example of this is the ongoing hunt for Agartha, a legendary city supposedly hidden ...