13+ hour, 7+ 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…...

17+ hour, 5+ 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+ day, 12+ 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, 2+ day ago   (600+ words) Farmers worked near these ruins for years. Then forgotten lidar data exposed an ancient Maya city beneath the forest. The discovery of Valeriana was made by accident. Archaeologists who were re-evaluating lidar (laser mapping) data they had collected in 2013 for…...

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, 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, 5+ day ago   (664+ words) An ancient tomb, a royal name, and monumental architecture suggest archaeologists may have uncovered a royal burial lost to time. A burial cave in Judea traditionally associated with Salome, the woman believed in Christian tradition to have helped at the…...

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,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (313+ words) Over 4,600 objects. One cave. Thousands of years frozen in place. Archaeologists say what they found here is unlike anything else recovered from this period in Europe, but they're not saying why just yet. A landslide that blocked the entrance to…...