Richard Bevan reveals the real stories behind the world’s lost cities - how they fell, how they were found, and why their ...

A submerged medieval city was found beneath Lake Issyk-Kul with streets, temples, and a cemetery. It sank in the 15th century ...

Deep beneath the soil of North Macedonia, near the village of Crnobuki, a long-lost city is emerging from the shadows of history. For decades, archaeologists believed these ruins were simply the ...

In 2024, a Mayan megacity was discovered in Campeche, Mexico. Swallowed by the rainforest, this lost urban center contained pyramids, plazas, amphitheaters, and highways. But this discovery wasn't ...

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 temperature hours ago climbed past 104 degrees, and the taxi’s air-conditioning is struggling to keep up. We are barreling across the lush plains of Uzbekistan on a midsummer afternoon. Then, ...

Grisly details about ancient child sacrifices, a map of a lost city in the Amazon and the answer to a Stonehenge mystery are some of this year’s insights into human history. Discovering a human brain ...

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 ...

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Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a lost city dating back thousands of years – and newfound evidence suggests it may be the capital of a once-thriving civilization. The recent ...

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 ...

Tashbulak and Tugunbulak may be largely forgotten today, but the pair of Uzbekistani cities thrived during the Medieval era. Nestled in the Tien Shan mountains, the largest east to west mountain range ...