Archaeologists discovered two mysterious Roman-era pools sitting under a heap of junkyard cars in eastern Rome. With an ancient shrine likely dedicated to the god Hercules sitting nearby—plus two ...

For nearly 180 years, both the church and the town of Saint-Denis have been without that landmark steeple. Damaged by storms, it was dismantled in 1847, supposedly so it could be built back better.

The expansion of one of the Mediterranean’s strongest powers wasn’t only driven by conquest, but also infrastructure. By ...

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New research reveals Peru’s Band of Holes once functioned as a marketplace before becoming Inca accounting infrastructure. Drone imaging and microbotanical analyses found maize and reed residues, ...

One of the world’s most unique archaeological sites – a band of thousands of holes snaking their way over a mountainside in the Peruvian Andes – has long remained a mystery, with no clear indication ...

The famed “Band of Holes” known as Monte Sierpe in the Andes of Peru have puzzled scientists for a century. New research suggests the holes were the site of an ancient marketplace. The Inca rulers may ...

Dr Jacob Bongers at the University of Sydney, holding a drone. Credit: Stefanie Zingsheim/University of Sydney. The authors declare no conflicts of interest. This research was funded by a Franklin ...

Archaeologists recently found a massive stone basin in Italy dating back more than 2,000 years — remnants of a once-powerful rival of Rome. The discovery was found in the ancient ruins of Gabii, about ...

Pity the Romans. Their sculpture is often compared unfavorably to that of the Greeks. While the work of their Attic cousins is celebrated for being high-minded and idealistic—all those ripped bodies, ...