Lost cities, missing tombs, and unexplained occurrences. History still holds unanswered questions for these seven events.

Archaeologists have mapped two lost cities of the Silk Road in Uzbekistan using drones and LiDAR. The fabled cities had lain buried under mountain pastures for centuries. Light detection and ranging ...

History isn’t a straight line—it’s a puzzle with missing pieces, some deliberately erased, others simply lost to time. We think we know our past, but what if the version we accept is just the loudest, ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have fully uncovered the ‘Lost City of Gold,’ a 3,000-year-old gold mining hub resurrected from the ...

Two swords once carried by samurai have been found during excavations in Ichijodani, one of medieval Japan’s largest cities. On the outskirts of Fukui, a city of a quarter of a million people in ...

Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been called the Silk Road, archaeologists are uncovering two medieval cities that may have bustled with inhabitants a thousand years ...

The real history behind El Dorado, the city of gold The real history behind El Dorado, the city of gold How archaeologists found one of the oldest cities on earth How archaeologists found one of the ...

A photojournalist describes his personal retracing of exploration routes taken during the 19th century in this magazine article written as his exhibition, "Path to the Lost Cities: In the Footsteps of ...