In ancient Asia, particularly the period spanning from 130 B.C.E. to 1453 C.E., one of the most prominent trade routes in the nation was the Silk Road. Technically, it was only called that after its ...

In a remarkable breakthrough, archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 5,000-year-old fortress in the forests of Neamț County, Romania. This significant discovery was made possible by the use of ...

OAXACA, MEXICO—According to a Newsweek report, Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis of McGill University and his colleagues spotted the remains of more than 1,000 structures built by the Zapotec in southern ...

BOHUNICE, SLOVAKIA—The Slovak Spectator reports that a settlement dating back some 7,000 years has been mapped with lidar technology at Hrádok, a hill in central Slovakia, by researchers from the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered over 6,500 previously unknown Maya structures, including a hidden city with grand pyramids, within southeast Mexico. This major discovery highlights the impressive and ...

Discovering Maya cities used to involve bushwhacking through the jungle, schlepping gear and sidestepping snakes. And over the course of his career, Professor Marcello Canuto has done plenty of that.

For the first time, archaeologists have used drone-based lidar technology in Central Asia to uncover stunning details of two newly documented trade cities located high in the mountains of Uzbekistan.

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human activity. They are using technology such as laser scanning and magnetometry, ...

The study of Maya archaeology has increasingly embraced interdisciplinary approaches that integrate traditional excavations with advanced landscape studies. Recent decades have witnessed a ...

Angkor, the epicentre of the ancient Khmer Empire, remains an enduring focus for the study of sophisticated cultural landscapes in Southeast Asia. The archaeological record reveals that the empire’s ...