In a preprint paper, scientists concluded that the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt—believed to be the oldest of the seven monumental pyramids and potentially constructed about 4,500 years ago ...

Off the coast of Japan’s Ryukyu Islands, beneath rolling blue waves and coral gardens, rests something that shouldn’t really be there, or at least, no one can quite agree on what it is. As reported by ...

Hidden beneath the waters surrounding Japan’s Yonaguni island are the towering ruins of a 10,000-year-old city built by a lost civilisation. That is, at least, what many experts think. The ...

Alan Taylor is a senior editor at The Atlantic. The winning entries in this year’s bird-photography contest were just revealed. Competition organizers were kind enough to share some of the winners and ...