Places
Joya de Cerén: The Maya Village a Volcano Buried — and Perfectly Preserved
When a bulldozer struck shaped walls in El Salvador's Zapotitán Valley in 1976, it cracked open Joya de Cerén — an entire Maya farming village sealed mid-breath by volcanic ash around AD…
69 Ancient Sites Unearthed Beneath One Mayo Road Corridor
When engineers plotted the N5 Westport to Turlough road through County Mayo, excavators uncovered 69 discrete archaeological sites spanning 5,000…
A 4,700-Year-Old Shipwreck Off Turkey May Be the Oldest Ever Found
Underwater excavations off Kekova Island in southern Turkey have uncovered ceramic amphorae dating to 2700–2500 BCE, making the wreck potentially…
How Volunteer Divers Turned the Nautical Archaeology Society Into a Field Force
The Nautical Archaeology Society built a distributed network of trained volunteer divers who brought professional standards to shipwreck discovery across…
Suriname’s Hidden Pre-Columbian Cities Are Vanishing Before Anyone Can Find Them
Decades of fieldwork by archaeologist Renzo Duin suggest Suriname's interior hides major pre-Columbian settlements, yet the country has no preventive…
Caracol’s 1,700-Year-Old Royal Tomb Is Dismantling What We Knew About the Maya
Deep in Belize's Chiquibul forest, the ancient Maya metropolis of Caracol has spent decades handing archaeologists evidence that contradicts nearly…
,000-Year-Old Saqqara Tomb With Three Sealed Sarcophagi Defied Looters
A new Saqqara excavation has uncovered a 4,000-year-old Middle Kingdom tomb built for a high-ranking official, complete with three sealed…
World’s Oldest Shipwreck May Have Been Found — 4,700 Years Old
A wooden cargo vessel discovered in the sheltered waters off Kekova Island, Turkey has been dated to between 4,400 and…
She Spent Three Weeks Digging in Greece — Here’s What No Textbook Teaches
Aspiring archaeologist Naomi Lyon spent three weeks sieving Bronze Age soil near Pylos, Greece — and her experience reveals what…
Mesopotamia Invented Cities and Writing — Then Vanished for 2,000 Years
The civilization beneath modern Iraq invented cities, writing, and the rule of law — then vanished so completely that for…