When digging through the rubble of an ancient church foundation, archaeologists found something unexpected. As crews in Rome ...

Libya recovered an ancient statue from the Ptolemaic era that had been displayed ... the return of the statue's ownership to ...

During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues depicting ... “Both the bodies and heads of the well-to-do young married ...

Authorities in Greece have arrested six people on the island of Crete in connection with an alleged antiquities smuggling ...

Zimbabwe is the house of stone, both literally and figuratively, with its very name derived from the ancient stone city of ...

Looking for some Activities to add to your Nimes, France itinerary? There are plenty of things to do, depending on your time ...

You’re confronted by human-size shapes of torsos, heads, animals and sometimes abstract figurations. While often categorised under the contentious label of “Shona sculpture”, the stone ...

Michelangelo used it for his lustrous sculptures, while larger masterpieces include the Taj Mahal and the Tower of Pisa. Even the byproduct is beautiful: chips become stucco walls and terrazzo floors.