Marlon Wright articles

What happens when the ground beneath a national park holds enough power to rewrite the country? If a supervolcano snapped awake, ash could smother regions and disrupt everything people rely on.

Some drives never let the moment pass quietly. Scenery shifts so quickly that the road feels like a doorway into somewhere new. Across the country, certain stretches transform an ordinary trip into one everyone instinctively tries to linger in longer.

Hidden throughout America are destinations that locals guard like secrets—underground catacombs, glowing fireflies, and ancient stone mysteries nobody can fully explain. These are the spots worth adding to your travel list.

Archaeologists unearthed fifteen monumental lamassu statues and stone reliefs at Nineveh, former capital of the mighty Assyrian Empire.

Not long ago, these places welcomed anyone with a ticket. Now, they’re drawing lines—sometimes for safety, sometimes for preservation. The open world we knew is getting a little smaller, one rule at a time.

In northeastern Iran, archaeologists found one of the largest Sassanid-era fire temples far from what’s considered the heartland of the Sassanids.

Cleopatra VII once ruled a kingdom where politics and divinity intertwined. Her ships sailed from glittering harbors along Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, carrying both wealth and whispers of empire. Now, more than two thousand years after her death, the sea that once bore her fleet may hold the final traces of her reign. Near the temple of Taposiris Magna—long suspected to be linked to her burial—researchers have uncovered a sunken Ptolemaic port. Its discovery breathes new life into one of history’s most enduring mysteries: where the last queen of Egypt chose to rest after her fateful alliance with Rome.

The ground simply opened up one June morning. Traffic stopped. Onlookers gathered around the growing hole in York. But this wasn't just another infrastructure failure—medieval walls emerged from the darkness.

Israeli prisoners walked over an ancient mosaic for decades, never knowing what lay beneath their feet. Then came a routine prison expansion in 2005. Archaeologists discovered something extraordinary related to Jesus Christ.