Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

Recently, however, archaeologists have begun excavating the site to see what secrets may lie in its neglected ruins.One day ...

The Challenge of Desert Archaeology Desert terrains such as the Rub Al-Khali, also known as the Empty Quarter, span hundreds of thousands of square kilometers. Traditional archaeological methods ...

Summary "Based on twenty years of archaeological fieldwork conducted in the Eastern Desert, this book reveals the cultural and historical richness of this little known and seldom visited area in Egypt ...

Researchers have now identified a total of 893 Nazca geoglyphs, of which 781 were discovered thanks to AI and aerial-image ...

A ship, the Bom Jesus, disappeared 500 years ago and was found in a desert in southwest Africa with gold aboard.

Lezon has done black-and-white photography her whole life, but about 10 years ago she recognized she had been photographing color for archaeological purposes.

The state in which the wreck of this Portuguese ship was located led experts to believe that it was most likely sunk during a ...

Ancient practices hold important lessons for farmers facing drying lands, but they were often more complex than modern societies realize. Glacier loss adds to the challenge today.

Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it’s one of the driest deserts in the world. Parts of the region receive less than an inch of rain in an ...