Archaeologists from Durham University and University of Al-Qadisiyah in Iraq have pinpointed the location of a famous early Islamic battle using declassified spy satellite images.

A joint team of archeologists from the U.K.'s Durham University and the University of Al-Qadisiyah stumbled across the site while undertaking a remote sensing survey to map the Darb Zubaydah ... two ...

Using advanced scanning technology, researchers have located a major Maya site in the thick jungle of Mexico’s Yucatán ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have used ancient DNA to challenge long-held interpretations of the people of Pompeii. Contrary to physical appearances, the DNA evidence revealed unexpected ...

More than a decade ago, archaeologists began to excavate one of the world’s oldest Christian churches in the middle of a ...

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

but Auld-Thomas took the data and analyzed the maps with methods used by archaeologists. A research team then went on to discover a huge ancient city that they named "Valeriana" after a nearby ...

We also found a large city with pyramids right next to the area’s only highway, near a town where people have been actively farming among the ruins for years.” Studying such ancient cities ...

Laser surveys have revealed a massive centuries-old Maya city in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.

Archaeologists have revealed thousands of previously unknown ancient Maya structures in southeast Mexico, including an entire hidden city—Valeriana—with impressive ... This method can map the ...

Researchers have named the new ancient city Valeriana, after a local lagoon. The discovery refutes previous assumptions within scholarly circles that the Tropics were where “civilizations went ...

SO THEY WERE WORKING SINCE GENERATIONS AND GENERATIONS BACK IN THE CITY OF CUSCO, THERE’S SAKSAYWAMAN, AN ANCIENT TEMPLE ABOVE THE CITY. CONSTRUCTION LASTED NEARLY 100 YEARS AND INCLUDES A ROCK ...