Explore Turkey's Derinkuyu, the world’s largest excavated underground city, and how the 2000-year-old marvel exemplifies ...

The ancient Maya city was named "Valeriana" after a nearby freshwater lagoon and built before 150 AD, researchers said.

Using lidar technology, researchers surveyed 50 square miles of Campeche, Mexico, discovering an entire previously unknown ...

Two of the more than 6,000 Maya structures archaeologists recently discovered in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula include an ...

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose location had been a closely guarded secret for centuries. Known as Ed Deir—the Monastery—this building ...

Unlike the nearby ancient city of Salamis whose Roman ruins stand to this day (not to be confused with the Island of Salamis just west of Athens), few traces of the ancient site now known as ...

Lasers revealed that the city spanned roughly the same area as Beijing and may have been among the most densely populated in the region.

Archaeologists have been studying a site of great importance: Fregellae, an ancient city that dared to rebel against the Roman Republic and paid the ultimate price. Recently, the unearthing of the ...

Avneet Hira’s scholarship is motivated by the fundamental question of how engineering and technology can support people in living well in an increasingly engineered world. Her research, which is in ...

once known as the ancient Greek city of Odessos. Workers found the marble man outside the fortress walls of Odessos in an area filled with alluvium, which is a combination of sand, clay ...

Ancient finds shape how we view history - and the world. Click or swipe through to see some of those discoveries as they're uncovered. The oldest known surviving tombstone in the United States ...

Studies on the remains of horses found at ancient burial sites in Russia and Lithuania show ... May 3, 2024 — Evidence from archaeological sites in the medieval English city of Winchester shows ...