Archaeologists have long known that complex societies can rise, flourish and then disappear so completely that only scattered ...

Something that has been hidden for 6,000 years has been uncovered. V-shaped stone ruins have been revealed by satellite ...

Ancient civilizations left behind enigmatic sites like the Plain of Jars, Nazca Lines, Paracas Candelabra, Yonaguni Submarine ...

For years, researchers have questioned who created the “band of holes” site in Peru. A new study suggests it was an ancient marketplace.

Albert Lin is photographed in front of Chachapoyas sarcophagi during his quest to find the lost city of the Chachapoyas in Peru. (National Geographic for Disney/Rocio Lira) "Lost Cities Revealed with ...

Cave stalagmite in Himalayas offers most detailed explanation for what led to decline of ancient Indus civilization, study says. Photo from Jed Owen via Unsplash Four thousand years ago, the sprawling ...

A lion, an eagle, a bull, a fig tree, and a plow all came together to point to one of Mesopotamia's greatest rulers. By Andrew Paul Published May 6, 2024 10:49 AM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

Curiosity about the past isn’t just academic. It’s a way of understanding who we are and how we became this version of ...

The absence of modern-day calculators did not stop ancient cultures from performing extraordinary feats of mathematics. The ancient Greeks kept count with abaci, frames with rods or grooves for moving ...