Slabs of marble sit in a quarry in Italy Photo: Emil Kuliev Marble is among civilisation’s oldest building materials, long admired by the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Michelangelo used it for ...

Photo from Antiquity While sifting through the ruins of an ancient building in Oman, archaeologists unearthed a pair of green-blue discs. The finds turned out to be a 4,000-year-old musical ...

While sifting through the ruins of an ancient building in Oman, archaeologists unearthed a pair of green-blue discs. The finds turned out to be a 4,000-year-old musical instrument — offering a ...