The Amazon rainforest, mountain highlands, and desert sands have long held secrets buried beneath their surfaces. Recent archaeological discoveries have upended centuries of assumptions about where ...

Mexican archaeologists have registered a sprawling ancient Maya city in southern Quintana Roo after local residents flagged ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed a remarkable two-meter-tall white marble statue of the Greek goddess Athena during ongoing excavations at the ancient city of Laodicea. Discovered lying face ...

The ancient Greek city of Ai-Khanoum in Afghanistan was discovered in the 1960s, but its demise has captivated archaeologists ...

Game board carved into a stone block found in the eastern part of the city. (Zofia Kowarska/PAP) Founded in the late 4th century BC under Hellenistic Egyptian kings, Ptolemais grew into a massive ...

An ancient city — complete with a forum and a theater — was recently uncovered alongside a popular tourist destination in Italy, according to officials. In a translated announcement this month, the ...

Not every ancient city is recorded in historical texts. Some remain hidden for centuries, waiting to be uncovered through archaeology. Occasionally, discoveries are made that reveal entire settlements ...

The drop in the water level of a lake has revealed the remains of an ancient Turkish city in remarkable condition.

A little over 2,000 years ago, in what is now western Turkey, a robber-king called Cleon renamed the city where he was born Juliopolis, in honor of his new friend, Gaius Julius Caesar (who was born as ...