The ruins of a 2,500-year-old lost ancient civilisation were recently found in a lake in Kyrgyzstan (Keer-gistan). Some researchers believe that these ancient remains may include an ancient Armenian monastery where, according to legend, the body of St Matthew, one of Jesus' disciples and his many relics were buried. A number of Orthodox Christians have long believed that Matthew was finally laid to rest here long after his death
In the Fall of 1869, Gideon Emmons and Henry Nichols made a monumental archaeological discovery. They were digging a well on a farm outside Cardiff, New York, for a man named William Newell. Three feet down, they hit stone, and as they cleared away the dirt, they made out what seemed to be a huma...
There is a legend which has excited the imagination of explorers and adventurers for centuries ... an ancient city lost for millennia beneath the sea. Robert Sarmast, an archaeologist and author of a book on the lost city, has located the centre of what he believes to be Atlantis, a "walled hills...
King Tutankhamen died 3,336 years ago, at just 19 years old, and death has always been somewhat mysterious. After Howard Carter found his tomb in 1922, theories from murder to epilepsy, to malaria have abounded. But British researchers think they’ve figured it out. Their examination of Tut’s rema...
