30 Facts About Angkor—The Ancient Mega-City ‘Covered’ In Thousands of Ancient Temples
Angkor, the lost city of the ancient kingdom of Cambodia The first actual reports in Europe of today’s famous Angkor Wat temples dates back to...
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One Of The Oldest Cities On Earth Is Home To One Of The Largest Castles In The World
When it comes down to ancient cities and those competing for the title of oldest of the all, Aleppo, located in modern-day Syria certainly makes...
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This Ancient City Was Built More Than 11,000 Years Ago, And It Predates Written History
It was Mark Twain who declared that the ancient Indian city of Varanasi was “…older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and...
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The Mysterious Flattened Mountaintop of Monte Alban, and its Ancient Pyramid City
One of the most unusual and mysterious archaeological sites in modern-day Mexico lies on the summit of Monte Alban. The city is believed to have...
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Ancient Assyrian Clay Tablets Reveal Location Of 4,800-Year-Old Lost City
After researchers recovered around 90 cuneiform tablets from the ancient Assyrian empire, philologists translated them and identified the location of a lost ancient city that existed...
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Legendary Lost City Of King David Found by Archaeologists
Experts have gotten excited about a recently made discovery. According to reports, an ancient city which dates back to the rule of King David from...
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5 Lost Legendary Cities That Have Never Been Found
Who doesn’t love a good adventure story? And who doesn’t love Indiana Jones Movies, right? And wouldn’t’ it be awesome to find Atlantis one day?...
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The Ancient City Of Hattusa; Home To The Mysterious Green Rock
The ancient City of Hattusa is home to megalithic stones, sphinxes, Lions, a mysterious green stone, laser-like drill-holes somehow performed on andesite blocks, and archeological...
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3 Ancient Underground Cities You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Thousands of years ago, for reasons unclear to scholars, ancient cultures around the globe decided to escape from the surface of our planet, and seek...
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Cahokia; An Ancient American City Covered in Pyramids
Around four centuries before the arrival of Columbus to the American continent, the Native Indians of Illinois erected a city that came to support a...
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The enigmatic ancient ‘city’ of Midas, built by the Phrygians almost 3,000 years ago
It’s an ancient—3,000-year-old city—that isn’t a city. It is said to be the eternal resting place of King Midas, the mythical character remembered in Greek mythology for...
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The underground city of Nushabad—one of the greatest masterpieces of ancient engineering
The ancient Underground city of Nushabad in Iran is considered by scholars as one of the greatest masterpieces of ancient engineering. Somehow, thousands of years ago, ancient...
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500 years before the Egyptians, an ancient civilization in Peru built incredible Pyramids
The Egyptians weren’t the first to build Pyramids. An ancient civilization in America, more precisely Peru, built stunning pyramids 500 years before the Ancient Egyptians....
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An ancient city has been found in the middle of the ocean
The ancient ruins are located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and could be the remnants of a long lost ancient civilization. Some even...
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Lost Ancient Inca City discovered in the middle of the Peruvian Jungle
The legacy left by the ancient Inca Empire is so vast that even today there are traces of this pre-Columbian civilization waiting to be found....
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2,000-year-old lost city, once ruled by Alexander the Great discovered in Iraq
Archaeologists belonging to the Iraq Emergency Heritage Management Training Programme have discovered a long lost ancient city founded after conquests of Alexander the Great in Iraq. Thanks...
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Long-lost city of ‘Giants’ unearthed in Ethiopia
A team of archaeologists has made a sensational discovery in Ethiopia. Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a long-lost city in Ethiopia, which according to...
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5 underwater discoveries that will make your Jaw drop
Our planet is full of mysteries, and our oceans play a very important role on our planet. Though about 97% of Earth’s water is in...
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A sandstorm in Iran has revealed the remains of a Lost Ancient City
According to initial reports, the newly discovered ancient city occupies approximately 5,000 square meters. Experts suggest—based on early analysis—that the ancient site dates back at...
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A 1,300 year-old island in Siberia shocked Vladimir Putin “I have never seen anything like it…”
An ancient fortress called Por-Bajin–or Por-Bazhyn, Por-Bazhyng—has historians and Putin—among many others—completely baffled. No one is quite sure why the mystifying, 1,300-year-old fortress was built...
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5 Ancient cities whose origin remains a profound mystery
All around the globe, we can find numerous ancient sites that completely challenge mainstream scholars. From ancient monuments to cities in ruins, numerous archaeological sites...
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NASA find remains of a 10,500-year-old lost ancient city hidden beneath the forest
While NASA is known for exploring our solar system and space in general, the space agency is also very thorough when it comes to planet...