From the viewpoint at the chapel of San Marcos, it looks like the work of an army of stonemasons. Two lines of pale limestone ...

On a gravel plain in northern Western Sahara, with no shade for miles, there is a heap of stones 54.5 meters (179 feet) long.

In the early 5th century, a woman of high rank was buried beside an old Roman posting station on the Via Augusta, in what is ...

A joint Greek-Chinese team has finished its first season at Angelokastro, in western Greece, where a village grew into the city of Arsinoe thanks to an Egyptian queen. It has uncovered a square ...

Almost nothing survives of what people wore in the Iron Age. Linen, wool and dyes are all organic matter, and in most soils they simply rot away. Archaeologists therefore tend to reconstruct the ...

Almost nothing survives of what people wore in the Iron Age. Linen, wool and dyes are all organic matter, and in most soils ...

Some 1,900 years ago, a man named Thrasymedes gave a thin sheet of gold to a god who was neither Greek nor Roman. The deity ...

They had crossed most of Persia, climbed snowbound mountains and fought tribes that hurled stones at them from the cliffs.

Neanderthals left plenty of traces in the western Pyrenees, the mountain range that separates Spain from France. Stone tools, ...

What do you make of a young child who says they remember being someone else? A team at the University of Virginia has not ...

Around 1200 BC, the eastern Mediterranean fell apart. The great empires of the Bronze Age collapsed, many cities were ...