Exploration goes beyond the pursuit of knowledge
The quiet landscape north of Lake Kifisida has yielded one of the most evocative burials uncovered in central Greece in recent years. Archaeologists working for…
Under the sharp light of the Şanlıurfa plateau, archaeologists at Karahantepe have revealed a structure unlike anything previously documented in the early Neolithic world: a…
Deep inside the limestone canyons that cut across the borderlands of Texas and northern Mexico, ancient murals stretch across cliff walls in sweeping tapestries of…
A site once thought thoroughly excavated may be preparing to deliver one of its most intriguing surprises. On Orkney’s Ness of Brodgar, new 3D Ground…
It began with a sweep of robotic sensors moving silently across the dark floor of Lake Biwa. What appeared first as a faint geometric outline…
Nearly 8,000 years ago, Europe’s earliest farmers began confronting a problem no hunter-gatherer group had ever faced: what to do with the growing piles of…
A still-faced sculpture with a sealed mouth, unfamiliar stone portraits carved in the hills, and a double-sided bead that seems to look in two directions…
At the edge of mist-filled valleys in southwestern China, there are places where the dead once hovered above the living. Wooden coffins were fixed onto…
A routine rescue excavation near the Dordogne River has revealed one of the most lavish Roman pyre burials ever documented in southwestern France. When archaeologists…
