1+ day, 15+ hour 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, 17+ hour ago   (424+ words) Buried deep beneath three continents lies evidence of a lost world far larger than anyone imagined. After analyzing tens of thousands of ancient rocks, scientists have uncovered hidden fragments of a supercontinent that once dominated Earth, fragments that were reshaping…...

1+ day, 19+ 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…...

3+ day, 21+ 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, 19+ 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…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (453+ words) A century ago, one of France's most powerful warships vanished in under sixty seconds, taken down by something no map of the time had ever recorded. What happened that night, and why it's still down there today, is a story…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (471+ words) This megastructure survived thousands of years without anyone knowing it was there. When it was finally discovered, it raised more questions than answers, about who built it, why they chose that spot, and what it was really for. The monument…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (378+ words) A quiet field in Suffolk was hiding an extraordinary secret. Beneath the soil, archaeologists uncovered a Roman monument reused across thousands of years, revealing a site that refused to be forgotten. Archaeologists excavating at Red Lodge, Suffolk, have uncovered a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (588+ words) A cellar renovation in Germany just uncovered a complete 13th-century ship's hull after centuries of mystery, exposing an extraordinary Medieval discovery. Archaeologists examining a cellar in Konstanz, Germany, set out to study a centuries-old room and instead stumbled onto something…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (759+ words) Beneath a former brewery, workers found a fortune sealed behind a wall. At first, it seemed that the metal objects coming to light while digging trenches for new drainage systems at the former brewery site in Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde, Belgium, were €1 coins....