Standing at the top of the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, with the sun shining over the ancient tombstones and glistening ...

Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...

An ancient fingerprint and several chemical clues from a 2,400-year-old sea raiders' boat are revealing secrets about where ...

The ruins of Guge in Tibet are one of Asia’s least-known ancient sites — but stunningly preserved. Richard Sherman calls out ...

Peru is often defined by the mystical ruins of Machu Picchu, but the country holds far more archaeological treasures than ...

A pilgrim who visited the Second Temple in Jerusalem may have carved their memories into a limestone block for another ...

An archaeological team has uncovered for the first time more than half of the temple, long buried under River Nile sediment.

New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans built astonishing monuments like the Lighthouse of Alexandria and the Hanging Gardens of ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - ...

Archaeologists finished excavating the most complete part ever discovered of the foundations of the walls, which surrounded ...

Isotopic analysis confirmed that the workers in Pompeii relied on hot-mixing when making their concrete. Samples from the ...