Archaeology news from the ancient world, checked against the original sources, and the home of The Egypt Files, The Greek Files and The Roman Files.
Euronews says a huge Roman building in Budapest stretches for hundreds of metres, points to the army and is on no map. The excavators say about 70 metres, no military purpose and a map still being drawn. The full file.
20 Sep 2026Headlines say Turkey has confirmed a 9 km tunnel network under Hagia Sophia. The minister said nine kilometres is being spoken of. About one kilometre has been surveyed. The full file: what was said, what has been mapped and what the evidence supports.
20 Sep 2026A radar team says it found eight spiral shafts and two 80-metre cubes under Giza. The paper behind their method has been retracted. The full file: the claim, the physics, the experts and what would settle it.
19 Sep 2026The index for The Egypt Files, The Greek Files and The Roman Files: every open case in one place.
10 Sep 2026There is, supposedly, a witness who watched the Great Pyramid's only inscription get painted. His name was Humphries Brewer.
8 Sep 2026The only physical evidence that names the builder of the Great Pyramid is a scrawl of red paint on a hidden ceiling, found in 1837 by a man blasting through the monument with gunpowder. It has never once been scientifically tested.
6 Sep 2026The rule: AI for reenactment only, real sourced material for anything that counts as evidence. On Episode 1 that has meant months of archive work — the Aberdeen cedar plank, Vyse's own 1840 diary, the Laborde plate, and a fact-check that caught real errors.
3 Sep 2026