When excavators stepped into a half-finished living room in Pompeii, they were not just walking into a frozen renovation, ...

New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans built astonishing monuments like the Lighthouse of Alexandria and the Hanging Gardens of ...

Isotopic analysis confirmed that the workers in Pompeii relied on hot-mixing when making their concrete. Samples from the ...

Calakmul remained relatively undisturbed until gum harvesters in Mexico led an American botanist to them in 1931. Here’s what ...

Archeological excavations at Jerash continue to produce new finds more than a century after the ancient city’s rediscovery.

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, in modern-day Turkey, was an ornate memorial built for Carian ruler Mausolus and overseen by his sister-wife Artemesia II.

The artwork on a 4300-year-old silver goblet unearthed in the Palestinian West Bank appears to show the universe forming out of primordial chaos – making it the oldest known visual representation of a ...

Michael David Stein does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

Souvlaki, ancient history, some of the world’s best beaches – there are endless reasons to holiday in Greece. But with popularity comes crowds, and in recent years the streets of Rhodes, Mykonos and ...

Archaeologists recently found a massive stone basin in Italy dating back more than 2,000 years — remnants of a once-powerful rival of Rome. The discovery was found in the ancient ruins of Gabii, about ...