Built over 2,000 years ago, the iconic desert city continues to mesmerize tourists and archaeologists alike. Ad Deir, or the Monastery, is one of Petra's many facades carved out of sandstone in ...

On a special episode (first released on January 1, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: An ancient, lost city in Southern Mexico hidden under jungle canopy for centuries, spotted via just searching on ...

Thousands of undiscovered structures were located at the long-lost city Valeriana, in the south of Mexico. Archaeologists noted the city had been “hidden in plain sight” under a jungle just 15 ...

Travellers’ accounts speak about more than 50 churches and convents, and 3,500 houses — the Portuguese occupied only about a quarter of them — that formed the city’s prominent landmarks.

Archaeologists in Iraq may have discovered the lost city of Qabra, mentioned in ancient Babylonian inscriptions.