Along shrinking shorelines and dusty riverbeds , a quiet reveal is underway: petroglyphs and inscriptions that spent decades beneath silt and water are blinking back into the light. The immediate story is dramatic – stone panels emerging where boat ramps once met lapping waves – but the deeper arc is about climate, time, and ...
A single sheet of parchment can spark a storm. Across labs and archives, researchers are re-reading the world’s oldest maps with new tools, asking whether ancient cartographers glimpsed a western land long before Columbus sailed. The idea is electrifying and uncomfortable: if a Roman-era world picture hid a clue to North America, entire chapters ...
The legendary tale of Atlantis has captured human imagination for over two millennia, sparking countless expeditions, debates, and theories about its possible existence. But today’s archaeologists are approaching this ancient mystery in entirely new ways. Rather than dismissing it as pure myth or desperately searching for a sunken city, they’re examining how real discoveries of ...
In a state better known for blistering summers and big skies, the most surprising story is frozen in time – written in the bones of giants. Across central and north Texas, mammoth fossils are pulling back the curtain on a past that looked nothing like a snow‑globe tundra. They speak of flash floods, shifting grasslands, ...
Across the windswept uplands of northern Laos, thousands of massive stone jars sit silently in the grass, as if a vanished people had stepped away and never returned. Archaeologists have mapped scores of jar fields and logged more than two thousand vessels, yet a definitive answer to their purpose remains elusive. The stakes are not ...
Under the desert’s hard light, a new picture is forming of how ancient Egyptians turned one of the Nile’s most fearsome hunters into sacred relics. Recent fossil finds and scans of crocodile mummies suggest a surprisingly simple, sometimes brutal routine – more sun and sand than secret potions. For years, scholars assumed thick resins, natron ...
Storm stories have a way of outliving the storms themselves, and Atlantis is the loudest survivor of them all. The legend promises a lost super-civilization swallowed by the sea, a neat explanation for ruins and ridges glimpsed beneath blue water. Yet as archaeologists scan the seabed with millimeter precision, the picture that emerges is messier ...
On New Zealand’s wild West Coast, the Karamea shoreline is a restless machine: tides sweep the ĹŚtĹ«mahana Estuary, channels wander, dunes shift, and stories rise and disappear with the sand. That makes a provocative question feel almost inevitable – could traces of the first people lie hidden here, waiting to reset timelines we thought were ...
Deep under the waves off Australia’s northern coast sits a lost chapter of human history that might change our knowledge of ancient migration, climate resilience, and vanished civilizations. On the submerged Northwest Sheld of Sahul, a landmass linking Australia to New Guinea tens of thousands of years ago, researchers have found the remains of a ...
Gargi Chakravorty
