The world’s largest pyramid is hidden inside a mountain in Mexico0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- August 27, 2016
Early settlers built a church on top of a hill not knowing that the Great Pyramid of Cholulu lay beneath

Early settlers built a church on top of a hill not knowing that the Great Pyramid of Cholulu lay beneath

In the summer of 2011, researchers uncovered a very large and unusual object deep in the Baltic Sea.

A ceramic fragment dating back to 5,000 BC with what might be “the world’s oldest writing” has been discovered in a previously unknown Chalcolithic (Aeneolithic, Copper Age) settlement found underneath the Ancient Roman road station Ad Putea near the town of Riben, Dolma Mitropoliya Municipality, Pleven District, in Northern Bulgaria.

A new look at the Dresden Codex may change our understanding of the ways the Maya used the night sky to plan their ceremonial calendars.

Breakthrough Starshot has examined the impact of stray atoms, cosmic dust.

Ancient air trapped in rock salt for 813 million years is changing the timeline of atmospheric changes and life on Earth.

The results are nearly identical across all the age groups.

Something really drastic must have happened to end the Classic Maya Period in the 9th Century. Within a short period of time, this advanced civilisation in Central America went from flourishing to collapsing – the population dwindling rapidly and monumental stone structures, like the ones built at Yucatán, were no longer being constructed.

The debate about ebooks v paper books is nothing new. Keith Houston explains how a very similar debate raged as the first books came to be in ancient Rome.



