In 2017, retired French geologist Yves Fouquet was looking at charts of the ocean floor around Sein Island that had been produced via laser mapping. To Fouquet, the formation – stretching 120 meters ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient civilizations accomplished feats of engineering that continue to challenge modern understanding. Despite advances in ...

When archaeologists announced in 2020 that they had traced a vast ring of prehistoric pits encircling the Neolithic site of Durrington Walls, the find instantly reshaped how researchers think about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While you may believe that it's hard to learn anything new about a structure that has been around for thousands of years, experts ...

Archaeologists investigating the seabed near Brittany have uncovered a massive prehistoric wall constructed from stacked ...

Scientists have revealed a new timeline for historic coral structures in French Polynesia thanks to the modern uranium-thorium dating method ...

The discovery, located in Grindasundet near the village of Telavåg, is the first time such physical evidence has been found ...

In 2020, a team of 18 international researchers—led by longtime Stonehenge expert Vince Gaffney—announced that they’d found two arcs of circular pits encompassing about 1.16 square miles surrounding ...

At first blush, the structures in New Mexico built by the Chacoan people and those in Ohio traced to the Hopewell culture bear little resemblance. The Chacoans, accommodating the arid desert of their ...

When one of his colleagues blew on a horn inside the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, an ancient, underground burial complex on the Mediterranean island of Malta, archaeologist Fernando Coimbra felt the sound ...

Compelling evidence of a massive ancient structure has surfaced in Ireland, where archaeologists working in the country’s Baltinglass hillfort landscape have discovered one of the largest settlements ...

While you may believe that it's hard to learn anything new about a structure that has been around for thousands of years, experts believe that they've just made a major discovery about an area located ...