Across the United States, earthworks, cliff palaces, and desert monuments are rewriting the story we thought we knew about early North America. The mystery is not that people lived here thousands of years ago – it’s how sophisticated, connected, and ambitious many of these communities were. Archaeologists armed with lidar, isotope chemistry, and cutting-edge dating ...
Stonehenge gets the headlines, but across the Americas, ancient Native builders raised earth, stone, and even shell into forms so precise and so biologically attuned to the landscape that modern researchers are still catching up. Many of these sites were engineered not just as monuments, but as living instruments: tracking the Sun and Moon, ...
On a windswept plain in southern England, a circle of weathered stones continues to defy simple explanation, drawing millions of visitors and a small army of scientists to its side each year. Stonehenge is old enough to predate the pyramids of Giza, yet new discoveries keep rewriting what we think we know about it. ...
On the east bank of the Nile, where the morning sun spills over a forest of stone columns and weathered sphinxes, Luxor looks less like a city and more like a paradox frozen in time. Tour boats and satellite dishes sit within sight of tomb shafts that have slept for more than three thousand ...
The Great Plains hold a puzzle that refuses to sit still: thousands of stone circles etched into shortgrass and sage, visible only to those who slow down. Archaeologists, tribal historians, ranchers, and hikers have all tried to read these patterns, and the answers shift with the light. Some circles look like the footprints of ...
