For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more ...

Old 'Polish Tombs' Uncovered in Poland Reveal New Insights About Neolithic Society The structures left behind by ancient ...

A groundbreaking discovery in Bulgaria reveals a 5,000-year-old celestial map.

Archaeologists from the University of Houston have discovered the first royal tomb at the sprawling Maya site of Caracol, in ...

Te K’ab Chaak was the first dynastic leader of the Maya region of Caracol. Even after the king died, his dynasty last another ...

Constructed pyramids have long been thought of as one of the peaks of human engineering. Despite the structures standing for thousands of years, archaeologists are still working to learn how the ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered multistory buildings from a lost Egyptian city in the Nile Delta, fostering new insights into urban life in antiquity. The ruins of the city – known in ancient times ...

A Greco-Roman tomb discovered beneath a hidden staircase in southern Egypt is shedding light on ancient burial customs and the layered history of the region. At the base of nine worn stone steps in ...

A major breakthrough in Maya archaeology has emerged from Caracol, Belize, where the University of Houston team uncovered the tomb of Te K'ab Chaak—Caracol’s first known ruler. Buried with elaborate ...

Archaeologists in Poland uncovered 5,500-year-old mounds, dubbed “Polish pyramids,” containing ancient tombs from an early ...

A team of archaeologists, led by Baylor University’s Davide Zori, Ph.D., principal investigator for San Giuliano ...

Ancient hunter-gatherers built monumental mounds at Kaillachuro in Peru without kings, rewriting history of "monumental ...