In 1785, a Spanish official named Don Diego Ruiz was looking for illegal tobacco plantations in the Papantla region of Mexico (then called New Spain), near the modern-day city of Veracruz, when he ...
The year’s most exciting discoveries included musket balls fired in the early days of the American Revolution, a lost composition by Mozart and a medieval chess piece Fascinating finds unveiled ...
Despite these warnings, Sudan guards one of Africa's greatest archaeological secrets: a millennial legacy of pyramids that surpasses even that of Egypt. While Egypt is synonymous with pyramids ...
In the waterways connected to the Great Lakes, researchers uncover boats that tell the story of millennia of Indigenous history Jacqueline Kehoe Maritime archaeologist Tamara Thomsen discovered ...
The subject reported seeing pyramids, large roads, and tall, thin beings in a collapsing environment. This was part of Project Stargate, a secret US Army programme investigating paranormal ...
Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and rival to Egypt. Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into its own ...
The Ancient Egyptians built pyramids as giant burial tombs for the most important people in their society, the pharaohs. Inside each of these pyramids is a mummy. Mummification was the way in ...