The discovery of an ancient city buried beneath the sands of modern-day Syria has provided evidence for a Hellenistic settlement that existed for more than six centuries extending into the time of the Roman Empire. The site provides a unique insight into the structures of a pre-Roman Hellenistic settlement. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

Some Leavenworth residents have been unknowingly walking around above an underground city, and no one seems to know who created it or why. picked by AfroMosHi 4 months ago

City of Villains is a massively multiplayer online role-playing computer game based on the superhero comic book genre, developed by Cryptic Studios and published by NCSoft. Released on 2005-10-31,the game is integrated with their previous release, City of Heroes. The gameplay centers on defeating a variety of computer controlled opponents within a three-dimensional world using various powers and a... read full post picked by sholom22 1 year ago

Archeologists have discovered what they think are ruins of an Aztec pyramid razed by vengeful Spanish conquerors in what is now one of Mexico City's most crime-ridden districts. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Workers digging a new Jerusalem tram line have stumbled upon the remains of an ancient Jewish city from the first century AD under what is now a Palestinian suburb of the Holy City. picked by shredtone 2 years ago

City of Shadows is a collection of photos of St Petersburg using time lapse techniques giving a sense of the faceless anonymity of the masses of the city as they go about their daily business.

The other galleries are worth a look too. picked by pocksucket 5 months ago

Deep inside an underwater cave in Mexico, archaeologists may have discovered the oldest human skeleton ever found in the Americas. picked by AutumnLotus 2 months ago

Hundreds of kilometers of Tokyo tunnels whose purpose is unknown and whose very existence is denied. picked by misswinkle 1 year ago

Apparently, honesty is not always the best policy. City refuses to give the cash to the worker after the required waiting period. picked by tomphoolry 2 years ago

A 650-million-year-old underwater reef, 10 times higher than the Great Barrier Reef, has been discovered in the middle of Australia's outback. The ancient reef, formed nearly 100 million years before the first known animal life evolved, is the only one of its age in the world. picked by AutumnLotus 2 months ago

The stone found was twice the weight of the previous record-holder, the Cullinan Diamond, which weighed about 3,106 carats. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A team of US archaeologists has discovered the ruins of a city dating back to the period of the first farmers 7,000 years ago in Egypt's Fayyum oasis. picked by deepchill 10 months ago

The hundred-million-year-old plumage has features of both feather-like fibers found with some two-legged dinosaurs known as theropods and of modern bird feathers. picked by MandolinOrange 9 months ago

Stockholm was rated the most livable city in the world in a Reader's Digest survey. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Now, a team of researchers working in New Mexico has found traces of life inside salty halite crystals. The discovery is "an invaluable resource for understanding the evolutionary record [of Earth] over a geological time frame." picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Kowloon Walled City was the most densely populated place on Earth before it was destroyed in 1993 and turned into a park. At its peak, the “city” had 50,000 inhabitants on 0.026 km² area of land picked by wildminou 10 months ago

Scientists at Holar University College and the University of Iceland have challenged the belief that the ice ages exterminated all life on land and in freshwater. They have discovered two species of groundwater amphipods in Iceland that are the only animals species found solely in Iceland. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

The traces of organic material found in fossil feathers are remnants of pigments that once gave birds their color, according to Yale scientists whose paper in Biology Letters opens up the potential to depict the original coloration of fossilized birds and their ancestors, the dinosaurs. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

Grave found is oldest DNA Evidence of a family picked by JoshSF49 4 days ago

During the restoration works at the Nashville City Cemetery archeologists found a very rare "piece of eight", latter named the "peso" and today known as "8 reales," dated 1776. picked by maxriter 1 year ago