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 ...

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 ...

Based on a comprehensive study, researchers are now convinced the shafts were human-made, likely dug during the Late ...

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

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.