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 ...

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.

Sixteen years ago a group of anthropologists discovered 3.4-million-year-old fossilized foot bones in Ethiopia. While they suspected the foot belonged to an ancient human that likely lived alongside ...

The Trevi fountain under a blue sky in Rome - Yasonya/Getty Images Countless Roman structures are fascinating at surface level, but Rome is quite layered — literally. Some areas of present-day Rome ...

Inside View: Ignore the haters pushing a revisionist history, and recognize the American experiment for the success that it is. Democracy is a powerful and dangerous force, as America and the European ...

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 ...