Archaeology is supposed to move slowly, one trowel scrape at a time, yet some of the most disruptive discoveries of the past few decades have appeared where nobody thought to look: under suburbs, beneath jungle canopies, below busy streets, and even inside construction pits. Again and again, “lost cities” have surfaced in places assumed ...
Walk across certain hillsides in the Americas and you’re treading on top of arguments that have divided archaeologists for decades. Beneath grassy mounds, in forgotten canyons, and under suburban parking lots lie ruins that seem to whisper a different version of early history than the one many of us learned in school. For a ...
Some ruins feel finished, like closed chapters in a history book. Others feel more like a half-burned manuscript, daring us to guess what was on the missing pages. Around the world, archaeologists are pulling lidar maps out of the jungle, scraping soot from temple walls, and reading microscopic pollen to reconstruct lives that vanished ...
The deserts and canyons of the American Southwest hold more than just breathtaking landscapes – they guard the silent echoes of forgotten civilizations. Long before modern cities rose from the dust, thriving cultures like the **Ancestral Puebloans, Hohokam, and Mogollon** built intricate cliff dwellings, irrigation canals, and trade networks that spanned hundreds of miles. These ...
Archaeology keeps pulling trapdoors under our assumptions, and the floor keeps dropping. For much of the last century, tidy timelines told a neat story of how complex societies appeared in a few obvious hotspots. Then a wave of discoveries – some underwater, some carved from bedrock, others traced from the sky – began to redraw ...
