3+ hour, 50+ min ago   (506+ words) What archaeologists uncovered could complete a 23-foot giant. For nearly a century, one of ancient Egypt’s most recognizable pharaohs existed at Hermopolis Magna as half a statue. German archaeologist Günther Roeder pulled the lower portion of an enormous seated figure…...

1+ day 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…...

1+ day, 3+ hour 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,…...

1+ day, 3+ hour 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, 23+ 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…...

3+ day, 5+ 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…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (443+ words) An engineer measured weathering at the Great Pyramid. His results push its construction back by millennia. The remaining casing stones were preserved due to one simple reason – they had been buried under sand before they could be removed from the…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (575+ words) A missing statue fragment lay buried for 96 years, ignored by nearly everyone who passed over it. When archaeologists finally uncovered it, they realized it belonged to something far bigger than they imagined. A statue of Ramesses II, split for nearly…...