These ancient structures still stand - but the people who built them remain a mystery that history can’t fully explain.

Archaeologists have finally uncovered the purpose of four mysterious stone megastructures scattered across Europe. These ancient constructions, once thought to be ritualistic or defensive, have been ...

Beneath the stone-paved streets of Cusco, a city layered with centuries of Andean and colonial history, researchers have ...

Beneath the tranquil surface of Grand Traverse Bay lies a secret far older than any shipwreck. Long known for calm waters and a proud seafaring past, the bay is now drawing attention for a prehistoric ...

The Chachapoya remain one of the lesser known pre-Hispanic cultures of South America. This is partly down to geography. As suggested by their epithet “people of the cloud forest,” the Chachapoya ...

The mysterious alignments of standing stones scattered across Brittany in France have intrigued archaeologists and tourists alike for centuries. Now, fresh discoveries at the Le Plasker site near ...

Cutting-edge LiDAR technology has revealed an astonishing secret concealed beneath the dense jungle canopy of Ecuador's Andean Chocó: hundreds of pre-Hispanic structures that dramatically expand our ...

In Western Europe alone, there are 50,000 of them, with Stonehenge being the most famous. But ancient stone structures aren’t restricted to one continent–they’ve been discovered all over the globe.