Explore the forgotten corners of the world where ancient civilizations once thrived,then vanished without a trace. In this immersive documentary, we uncover the mystery of lost cities that have been ...

Shifting sands have long covered the ancient city's 8th-century core and ... metres of dunes onto Chinguetti's streets and in ...

The theocratic capital of early Nasca times was a sand ... from ancient houses at La Tiza, archaeologist Ernesto Díaz searches for artifacts such as bones, beads, and obsidian tools. People ...

which were left behind by people dependent on the region’s bygone lake. Among those footprints, scientists have found new evidence of ancient activity recorded in the sand — and it’s ...

She was a researcher on her first trip to these seldom-visited ancient sand dunes easily visible from space. On that day, she and Jim Kruse were among a team of eight people exploring the dunes ...

Just a pebble in the sand–with sculpted human features. Is it possible that a rock found along the beaches of the Jersey Shore could be an artifact left behind by Native Americans? The History ...

TAKE a forked stick and plant one of the prongs in sand. Turn it like a compass and you will etch a perfect circle, as demonstrated (above) on a South African beach by Charles Helm of the African ...

In the vicinity are several other forested sand dunes that were also campsites of ancient people who lived there as the late great ice age was waning. In their paper, Rowe and her colleagues ...

By watching expert sand artists, learning about their methods, collecting drawings and history and exploring ... with a population of some 315,000 people spread throughout 83 islands.

The scientists looked for evidence of this slow, steady avulsion process in the Ganges Delta but found evidence of something much more dramatic in its ancient past, hidden in grains of sand.

has revealed surprises about its age and growth — and hinted that ancient evidence of star dunes may have been hiding in plain sight all along. Using radar scans and analysis of sand grains ...