Across Peru’s desert plains, AI is transforming how archaeologists find and interpret the Nazca Lines—turning faint traces ...

Most comprehensive study of the temple complex and its surrounding land and water scapes identifies the earliest period of ...

A new mission aimed at solving the mystery of what happened to aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart has been postponed until 2026.

A team of researchers believes they may have cracked one of America’s most enduring legends: Where did the settlers of the Roanoke Colony go? The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was the ...

A research team has uncovered an extraordinary Early Bronze Age ritual landscape at Murayghat in Jordan, offering valuable insights into how ancient communities adapted to social and environmental ...

For centuries they built vast pueblos across the American Southwest—then they were gone. The disappearance of the Ancestral Puebloans remains one of archaeology’s greatest puzzles ...

The mystery of the now-ruined Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan may rest in a lost language scholars said they’ve deciphered.

Legends have long tried to explain the sounds this lake makes. A research team has accidentally figured it out. The truth is ...

Archaeologists have confirmed that Easter Island ’s iconic Moai statues were “walked” to their platforms using rope by ...

F or nearly 35 years, a hidden message has lurked in plain sight on a sculpture outside the cafeteria of the CIA’s ...

The researchers connected an inscription on a marble pedestal to the well-preserved marble sculpture. Photos by A.B. Biernacki / Klenina et al., npj Heritage Science, 2025 More than two decades ago, ...