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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNUnderwater Archaeologists Capture Photos of Japanese Warship That Hasn't Been Seen Since It Sank During World War IIDuring World War II, a Japanese Navy destroyer called the Teruzuki sank in the Pacific waters near the Solomon Islands. Now, ...
Archaeologists discovered a trilobite fossil from millions of years ago in a Roman-era dump near what is now Galicia, Spain.
Egyptian archaeologists located a lost 3,500-year-old cemetery containing mummies and statues—among other discoveries. They ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNA Child's Skull That Has Long Confounded Archaeologists Might Be a Human-Neanderthal Hybrid, Study SuggestsIn 1931, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old remains of a child, among other individuals, in Skhūl Cave on ...
The Maya ruler in question was Te K’ab Chaak, the first ruler of Caracol, an important Maya city that ruled the southern part ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNArchaeologists Find 300-Year-Old Shipwreck in What Used to Be ‘One of the Baddest Pirate Lairs on Earth’Pirates attacked the Portuguese warship, named the "Nossa Senhora do Cabo," and made off with many of the treasures the ship ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNArchaeologists Discover Site Where George Washington Stopped a Friendly Fire Incident by Blocking Muskets With His SwordIn 1758, during the French and Indian War, the future president saved lives by stepping into the middle of a deadly skirmish ...
Now, two more pyramids have been uncovered in a Dezydery Chłapowski Landscape Park by researchers from Adam Mickiewicz University. The structures, built of earth and stone, were first found using a ...
A schoolboy’s chance discovery of the ribs of a wooden ship poking through the dunes of a remote Scottish beach sparked an extensive hunt by archaeologists, scientists, and local historians. Their ...
The Roman Empire built 73 miles of wall to fortify its northern border in Great Britain. In AD 122, the Emperor Hadrian ...
The Mayan city of Caracol has been researched for decades, but archaeologists only recently found a tomb of one of the city's ...
British archaeologists recently helped uncover multistory buildings from the ancient Egyptian city Imet in the Nile Delta, ...
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