The urbanization of ancient Athens, starting as a region of scattered villages and growing into an influential city, is fascinating.

To boost our understanding of a little-known civilization that thrived more than 3,000 years ago, scientists have built an ...

Archaeological evidence makes a compelling case for Neanderthal-created fires 400,000 years ago in Suffolk, UK — plus, how ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

From Hellenistic dining-room mosaics to 1,600-year-old Byzantine floors, Sinop’s ancient mosaics at the Balatlar Complex will soon be accessible to the public via a new visitor center.

Lime granules trapped in ancient walls show Romans relied on a reactive hot-mix method to making concrete that could now ...

Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

On a gray afternoon in November, a group of 19 people took a walk through grassy fields to a remote Bronze Age stone circle ...

The lost city of Imet rises from the Nile Delta, with 2,500-year-old mud houses that stood like skyscrapers in ancient Egypt.

On the windswept hills overlooking Turkey's vast southeastern plains, new archaeological discoveries are revealing how life ...

It took decades for archaeologists to realize this 3,500-year-old tablet depicts an ancient city at scale. But how did its creators pull that off? Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed a trove of priceless ancient jewelry and gold coins near the ruins of a historic Christian city. The treasure was found in the ancient city of Hippos near the Sea of ...