Ancient stories from across the world tell of skies on fire and oceans rising. For centuries, scholars dismissed them as allegory. But modern archaeology and geology are uncovering startling clues suggesting those “myths” may describe an actual event about 12,900 years ago.
For centuries, Egypt’s Saqqara necropolis has guarded its dead beneath layers of desert sand. Just south of Cairo, this sprawling burial ground once served as the cemetery for ancient Memphis, a city that flourished more than 4,000 years ago.
Archaeologists, historians, and scientists work around the clock year after year, but for every question they answer, two more pop up.
In 1988, during excavations of a sewer beneath a bathhouse in Ashkelon, Israel, archaeologists discovered the remains of nearly 100 infants.
We all love a good ancient archeological discovery. There's just something about the idea of uncovering a buried treasure that has fascinated people for centuries. New discoveries can fill us with wonder and amazement at...
If there’s one problem with history, it’s that there’s just too much of it. Archaeologists, historians, and scientists work around the clock year after year, but for every question they answer, two more pop up....
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