archaeology
Scientists Discovered These Ancient Cities Have a Secret Link to the Cosmos
The unexpected discovery pushes the timeline of the 260-day Mesoamerican calendar back by several centuries.
A Total Amateur May Have Just Rewritten Human History With Bombshell Discovery
Ben Bacon is "effectively a person off the street," but he and his academic co-authors think they've found the earliest writing in human history.
The Oldest Known Narrative Scene in Human History Is a Guy Holding His Dick
Humans have been telling NSFW stories forever, it turns out.
Scientists Are Investigating Signs of Ancient Human Civilization Underwater
An underwater "Stonehenge" stretches for miles under a lake in Europe. "I think it was something with a cultic context," one researcher theorized.
Archaeologists Discover Vast ‘Miracle’ Tunnel Under Egyptian Temple Ruin
The tunnel under a temple to the god of the underworld is a "miracle" of geometry, archaeologists said.
Archeologists Discover Huge Stone Penis in Ancient Roman Ruins
The hefty phallus is 17 inches long and may be the biggest example from ancient Rome ever discovered.
Scientists Think They've Found a Huge Goddess-Worshiping Lost City In Iraq
The ancient lost city of Natounia is only known to exist from references on ancient coins, and archaeologists have identified its likely location.
Head of Hercules Discovered in Ancient Antikythera Mechanism Shipwreck
Tantalizing finds are emerging from the shipwreck that carried the Antikythera Mechanism, the world’s oldest analog computer.
Archaeologists Discover Ancient Tomb Marker Cursing All Who Enter In Israel
A man buried 1,800 years ago in Israel had a blood-red threat scrawled on his tomb.
Underwater Ruins of Ancient Lost City Emerge Due to Extreme Drought
Archaeologists rushed to excavate the ruins of a 3,400-year-old city in Iraq that briefly emerged above the water of a drained reservoir.
‘Mind-Blowing’ Lost City With a Cosmic Link Discovered in the Amazon
A sprawling society with pyramids, moats, and “forest islands” thrived from 500 to 1400 A.D. in the Bolivian Amazon.
Archaeologists Discover Dozens of Mysterious Giant Stone Jars in India
The giant jars were made by unknown people for a mysterious purpose, and the new find adds four new jar sites to our knowledge, for a total of 11.