The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers ...

Italian archaeologists, working with Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Directorate of Archaeology, have discovered eight new ...

Archaeologists recently found a massive stone basin in Italy dating back more than 2,000 years — remnants of a once-powerful ...

Pamukkale in Turkey looks like a snowy paradise but its hot springs have been a geothermal tourist attraction for millennia, ...

Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, are credited for many firsts in ...

The British sculptor Antony Gormley and the Japanese architect Tadao Ando designed an installation evoking the ancient Roman ...

When his lecture ended, I turned to my friend beside me and whispered, ” I need to give that pot back.” My brother still ...

Archaeology here is not treasure hunting. It is slow, careful work. It is listening to stones that speak in small details. Think of a dig like a layered cake… You slice it one layer at a time. If you ...

The poor state of the ruins made the idea of keeping them difficult to imagine, as did the relative uncertainty of final costs. While each project is unique, a renovation of an historic building can ...

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

In the south-east of the continent at Budj Bim (Mount Eccles), modern science can tell us a volcanic eruption happened ...