How did monuments like Göbekli Tepe and the Great Pyramid survive thousands of years of earthquakes while modern structures ...

Built during Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty, the pyramids on the Giza Plateau has been drawing visitors for thousands of years. The earliest records of tourists dates back to the 5 th century BCE, when Greek ...

Bridges are an underrated piece of architecture. When people think of engineering marvels, they’re more likely to think of ...

From the Library of Alexandria to the lost works of Plato, the world is littered with ancient writings containing long-lost ...

A tribute to the genius of a Renaissance mind, a positively fishy story of coastal design and more well-built selections.

No matter how much we dig, it seems there's always something new to discover. Quite literally... A 6th-century Byzantine bucket, an ancient Egyptian royal tomb and a sanctuary dedicated to the ...

A fragment of a Roman milestone that was erected along the road Via Nova Traiana in Jordan. (Adam Pazout/Itiner-e) WASHINGTON — As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and those roads ...

A children's book has claimed the ancient inhabitants of Scotland were black. The illustrated book, which aims to make Scottish history accessible to children as young as four, claimed that Scotland ...

A team of scientists from Shenzhen University in China has discovered the first evidence of a new type of cave on the Red Planet. The researchers claim these may have once provided the conditions ...

Step through the gates of Olympus and you meet a reality far more exacting than myth: stone fatigue, seismic stress, polluted air and the relentless wear of millions of visitors. Today’s conservators ...

A reconstruction of the Hydraulis by Michael Klee. Public Domain Fragments of the Hydraulis—the ancient Greek water organ—were unearthed at the archaeological site of Dion, at the foot of Mount ...

All roads may have once led to Rome — but those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a new digital atlas published this week. The study, called Itiner-e, mapped nearly ...