Spanish archaeologists recently announced the discovery of an ancient stone with perplexing symbols carved onto it. The symbols, experts believe, are actually an ancient alphabet. If their ...

What can an ancient water basin discovered near Rome reveal about construction, engineering and water management techniques that may be useful today?

A pedestrian who spotted a strange arrangement of stones wound up helping archaeologists rediscover an Ancient Roman building. The find was announced by the Swiss canton of Solothurn on Facebook on ...

Digging into the dry soil of a field in southern Germany, archaeologists hit some rocks and painstakingly unearthed a massive stone structure. They’d expected to find something at this site — but what ...

Rome once had a near-equal rival just 11 miles away in the early days of the empire. The ancient Roman city of Gabii may not ...

Experts are still puzzling over a basalt stone tablet more than three years after discovering it near Lake Bashplemi in Georgia. According to their recent study published in the Journal of Ancient ...

John Shaw-Rimmington started building dry stone walls after the stones themselves complained to him. It was the 1980s, and he was living in Ontario, working for clients who wanted decorative stone ...

From the heart of the earth a magnificent Roman style temple roof rises built entirely by bare hands from solid stone every ...

If you look closer at the building stones, tiles and pavements of the big city, you can find a hidden world of geology and ...

A controversy has erupted in Northern France after dozens of ancient standing stones were destroyed to make way for a hardware superstore. Roughly 39 stones, dating back at least 7,000 years were ...

When a powerful earthquake struck Myanmar on March 28, it didn't just jolt the earth, it peeled back history. As the 7.7-magnitude tremor split the ground open in Tada-U Township, it revealed a ...