A $2.3 million restoration is using advanced laser technology to clean and preserve the 1,840-year-old Rome’s Column of ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

Between Giza and Saqqara lies a rarely visited Old Kingdom site filled with precision-cut objects that appear machined rather ...

Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient ...

TEHRAN - An Iranian village in Ilam province is drawing attention for a series of rock-cut grain storage structures believed ...

Yunju Temple’s millennia-old Fangshan stone scriptures are preserved and revitalized through global cooperation, digital technology and cultural innovation.Beijing, China, Dec. 22, 2025 (GLOBE ...

Read on to see the world's oldest man-made structures that are still in use, from Roman amphitheatres to Chinese temples...

Nearly 2,000 years after a devastating volcanic eruption destroyed and entombed a thriving Roman city, researchers are turning to the novel technique of digital archaeology to reveal the “lost Pompeii ...

Archaeologists in China discovered 573 ancient stone fortress settlements in the mountains near Yulin. The prehistoric fortresses are each located near key water features, and some are connected to ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints of living organisms in ancient rocks, an ...

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a frozen shoreline in what’s now Japan or Russia, staring east across the gray ...