Peter Kinney articles

Few discoveries stop Egyptologists in their tracks, but this one did. During a routine excavation near Djoser’s Step Pyramid, archaeologists brushed aside centuries of dust and uncovered a sealed coffin containing a tightly rolled papyrus. When carefully unrolled, it stretched an astonishing 52 feet—the first full Book of the Dead papyrus uncovered in Egypt in over a hundred years. If ancient Egyptians believed words had power, these had clearly held their own. The document belonged to a man named Ahmose, possibly an official or priest, whose burial dates to around 50 BC. Despite its age, the papyrus’s hieroglyphs remain vividly inked in black and red, depicting prayers, spells, and rituals meant to guide the deceased through the afterlife. Each line echoes an ancient belief—that the soul’s journey didn’t end with passing; it simply changed form.

Dust hung in the air, and hope clung to every traveler heading west. Life wasn’t easy, but it was raw and real. These were the moments that shaped everyday life on the rugged frontier.

Blaine Gibson has spent the last decade combing beaches for fragments of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, to find truth for the families of the missing passengers.

Four and a half millennia after Khufu’s builders sealed the Great Pyramid, scientists have slipped a tiny camera through its ancient stones and spotted something remarkable. A narrow corridor, untouched since antiquity, lies hidden above the pyramid’s main entrance. What purpose it once served remains a puzzle, but its discovery adds a new layer to Egypt’s greatest mystery. Keep reading to see how modern tech cracked an ancient secret.

You never really know what the tide will bring. Maybe something shiny, perhaps something older than you’d guess. These weathered finds remind us that history just drifts back when the sea feels like sharing.

Beneath the Nefud’s endless dunes lies a memory written in stone. Every carving—animal, human, or symbol—forms a silent archive of vanished seasons. These rocks recorded the heartbeat of a land once green.

Most Americans know Old Faithful, but few understand the real Yellowstone story. It's a tale that stretches back thousands of years before park boundaries existed. The landscapes we marvel at today hold intriguing secrets.

Some treasures hide in plain sight, waiting centuries to be found. Diamonds lured miners to Namibia's forbidden coast, but they unearthed something far more precious instead. A Portuguese trading vessel lay beneath their feet.