We also found a large city with pyramids right next to the area’s only highway, near a town where people have been actively farming among the ruins for years.” Studying such ancient cities ...

Researchers have named the new ancient city Valeriana, after a local lagoon. The discovery refutes previous assumptions within scholarly circles that the Tropics were where “civilizations went ...

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose location had been a closely guarded secret for centuries. Known as Ed Deir—the Monastery—this building ...

Proceeding to even the second page of Google search results is rare enough, but going all the way to page 16 and then selecting an entry that leads to the discovery of a huge Mayan city that was ...

The dataset also showed a previously unknown city, which the archaeologists have ... Researchers believe it could be the second-densest known ancient Maya site in that region, surpassed only ...

Studies on the remains of horses found at ancient burial sites in Russia and Lithuania show ... May 3, 2024 — Evidence from archaeological sites in the medieval English city of Winchester shows ...

A Gulf state is hoping to transform its country’s tourism industry to turn its cities into a popular holiday hotspot for European travellers. With the success of Dubai and Abu Dhabi ...

once known as the ancient Greek city of Odessos. Workers found the marble man outside the fortress walls of Odessos in an area filled with alluvium, which is a combination of sand, clay ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have used ancient DNA to challenge long-held interpretations of the people of Pompeii. Contrary to physical appearances, the DNA evidence revealed unexpected ...

A graduate student analyzing publicly available drone data in Mexico unexpectedly stumbled across a huge ancient Mayan city buried beneath dense jungle. For centuries, the city lay hidden amid ...

An ancient oasis city is being transformed into a luxury holiday destination by Saudi Arabia in the hopes of luring rich tourists to what was once one of the world’s least-visited countries.