Ancient Athens had its own "Great Wall" like China's, built to stop raids during the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC).

Stone State Park sits on the edge of the Loess Hills, creating this amazing contrast. The park covers over 1,000 acres of some of the most unique landscape in Iowa. Rolling hills covered in prairie ...

An unassuming Tudor hunting lodge in the Cumbrian district in the U.K. just gave up a wild secret: rare wall paintings from ...

In a preprint paper, scientists concluded that the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt—believed to be the oldest of the ...

For nearly two decades, our idea of fun is seeking out amazing archaeology–from amphitheaters outside of Rome to aqueducts in ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

and then systematically blew up several of the ancient city's most important monuments. The explosion at the Baalshamin ...

At the beginning of the 13th century, infamous leader Genghis Khan united the Mongols under a common goal — invading the Chinese empire. The land fell to the Mongols in an era that would later be ...

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Hidden prehistoric sites near Hyderabad, including Manchirevula's ancient tool valley and ... Scattered here are stone tools crafted by early humans, which archaeologists believe are made of ...

A stunning example of this phenomenon in 2024 was a stone pyramid in Mexico succumbing to an increasingly ... suddenly slumped under the pressure of incessant rain, its south wall crumbling into a ...