A monumental wall and 60 monoliths discovered underwater off Sein Island challenge established timelines of human ingenuity.

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

"Archaeologists did not expect to find such well-preserved structures in such a harsh setting," geologist Yves Fouquet said.

In the coastal desert of Peru, a line of crumbling stone towers rises from the sand, framing the horizon with an almost ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Divers have discovered a long-submerged wall some 7,000 years old under the sea off western France, scientists said Thursday.

Archeologists say they have finally cracked the 6,000-year-old mystery of Armenia’s “dragon stones" – massive carved ...

Far below the surface of the Baltic Sea, archaeologists have mapped a 3,000 foot line of stones that looks less like a ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting ...

PENZANCE, England (RNS) — On a gray fall afternoon earlier this month, a group of 19 people gathered outside the Church of St. Buryan, an iconic medieval parish with a 92-foot granite tower that ...

Athens, Greece – The timeless Greek mathematical principle of beauty, the Golden Ratio (Φ ≈ 1.618), has once again made headlines worldwide after a new scientific analysis declared American actress ...

Stone fortress wall from Ming dynasty in China. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.1 es A six-year archaeological survey in Shaanxi Province, northwest China, has uncovered 573 ancient stone ...