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 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 ...

The pits were found with geophysics, then boreholes were made to test the sediment. [Internet Archaeology journal] The discovery of a series of huge Neolithic pits have been confirmed at the ...

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 ...

Scattered across the deserts of the Middle East are vast stone formations stretching for miles. Known as desert kites, these prehistoric structures may be among the largest human-made constructions of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Trabzon, Turkey, have made an extraordinary discovery, unearthing one of the world’s only three known ancient river ports. The structure, found buried nearly eight meters (26 feet) ...