Built over 2,000 years ago, the iconic desert city continues to mesmerize tourists and archaeologists alike. Ad Deir, or the Monastery, is one of Petra's many facades carved out of sandstone in ...

Archaeologists in Iraq may have discovered the lost city of Qabra, mentioned in ancient Babylonian inscriptions.

According to Plato, Atlantis was a rich and advanced island nation that was located in the Atlantic Ocean nearly 12,000 years ...

Travellers’ accounts speak about more than 50 churches and convents, and 3,500 houses — the Portuguese occupied only about a quarter of them — that formed the city’s prominent landmarks.

On a special episode (first released on January 1, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: An ancient, lost city in Southern Mexico hidden under jungle canopy for centuries, spotted via just searching on ...