Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It is the place "between the spaces" — a purgatory. At least, the locals on the island of Pohnpei in Micronesia seem to think so.

Across more than 100 artificial islets in a Micronesian lagoon, Nan Madol’s builders stacked monumental courses of columnar basalt. UNESCO identifies the site as a ceremonial and political center ...

Off the southeastern shore of Pohnpei, a small island in the western Pacific state of Micronesia, more than ninety artificial islets rise from a shallow lagoon and reef flat. Together they form Nan ...

Even by the standards of enigmatic ancient ruins, Nan Madol is strange. Constructed primarily of “logs” made of volcanic rock, the site consists of dozens of small artificial islands separated by ...

New uranium series analysis of chief's tomb suggests island's monumental structures are earliest evidence of a chiefdom in the Pacific -- yielding new keys to how societies emerge and evolve. New ...

Nan Madol is located near the southern side of the Federated States of Micronesia. It is the only ancient city ever built atop a coral reef. Christopher Pala We zigzag slowly in our skiff around the ...

THE discovery of a mystical island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has sparked hope that fictional island Atlantis is REAL. Archaeologists have used new technology to explore the ancient city of ...

New dating on the stone buildings of Nan Madol suggests the ancient coral reef capital in the Pacific Ocean was the earliest among the islands to be ruled by a single chief. The discovery makes Nan ...

Visiting the ruins of Nan Madol in the Federated States of Micronesia is like stepping into an Indiana Jones movie. Canals connect 92 man-made islets over 200 acres built on basalt and coral boulders ...