Two discoveries reveal a hidden Byzantine settlement and sealed tombs containing gold amulets.

Researchers hacked through more than three miles of vegetation to get to the site, which lies out of bounds of familiar logging tracks. There, they found unique carved stelae and altars ...

On June 22, 2026, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History announced the discovery of Minanbé — an intact, ...

For 1,600 years, a once-thriving frontier settlement lay buried beneath Egypt's western desert. Once governed by Byzantine ...

For centuries, this ancient city remained unknown, its existence hidden beneath layers of earth, vegetation, or forgotten ...

Archaeologists also found four gold pieces placed inside the mouths of some of the deceased, known as ‘the golden tongue’ ...

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose location had been a closely guarded ...

For more than 1,000 years, dense forests in the Mexican state of Campeche concealed the region’s ancient human history. Scientists called Campeche an archaeological “blank spot” in the Maya Lowlands, ...

A well-preserved Byzantine-era residential city in the western desert is one of two major archaeological finds announced by ...

Archaeologists have found the remains of an ancient 'lost' city in Egypt’s western desert, Ministry of Antiquity officials have revealed.

The treasures found in the "lost city" of Tanis rival those of King Tut's. Yet for more than six decades the riches from its ...