Part I of the Polar Nexus Series: Reconstructing the ancient world that existed long before recorded history and left its fingerprints on every early civilization.

Explorations of a submerged passage in the Tlayococ cave in Mexico led to an undiscovered room. Within the room, cave explorers discovered bracelets sitting atop stalagmites and other artifacts from a ...

Across caves, jungles, and deserts, archaeologists are piecing together traces of societies that slipped from written history yet left unmistakable fingerprints in stone, bone, and buried ritual.

(NEWSER) – Heard of the long-lost "White City" or "City of the Monkey God"? A group of experts who entered a Honduran rainforest in search of it emerged last Wednesday saying they have found a lost ...

Archaeologists have long known that complex societies can rise, flourish and then disappear so completely that only scattered ruins hint at what was lost. Now a new wave of research is sharpening the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Archaeologists believe the sudden destruction of a pre-Columbian civilization found in southern Illinois occurred around 1150 AD. But to find the ...

Finding out what actually happened in the deep past can be a slog, so when ancient history is packaged as mystery—spine-tingling but solvable—it’s hard to resist. Who doesn’t want to know how a lost ...