The Anadolu Agency reports that a stadium has been uncovered in western Turkey’s ancient site of Blaundos, a naturally fortified hilltop city founded as a garrison for Macedonian soldiers during ...

According to a statement released by Arizona State University, a second hominin lived in […] ...

Mesopotamia, eighth century b.c. Streams and irrigation canals shown on both reliefs are also mentioned in a text commissioned by Sennacherib that records his grand efforts to transform Nineveh. This ...

Nearly 9,000 years ago, Mesolithic foragers living along the Danube gathered Cornelian cherries on the edges of a dense oak forest surrounding their settlement. They used cherry wood as kindling and ...

Greece, fifth century b.c. To accommodate the sculpture, Phidias raised the height of the cella. He also installed a large rectangular pool filled with olive oil in front of the statue. Since the ...

A sculpture known as the Hell Mouth is one of several dozen fantastical creations dating to the sixteenth century that line the paths of a park called the Sacro Bosco, or Sacred Wood, near the central ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

An excavation conducted in the historic center of the town of Třebíč has revealed thirteenth-century carved pottery, the ...

Coffea arabica, the flowering evergreen plant whose vibrant red berries, when dried and roasted, are used to make millions of cups of coffee each morning, originated in the forests of Paleolithic East ...

ABC News Baltimore reports that Maryland State Terrestrial Archaeologist Zachary Singer and State Geologist Rebecca Kavage Adams are investigating stone tools made and used by Clovis hunters some ...

A one-foot-wide bronze mask dating to around 1100 b.c. emerges from beneath a bronze vessel containing cowrie shells during recent excavations at the site of Sanxingdui in China’s Sichuan Province.

Hyde Park Barracks was home to two nineteenth-century institutions for women: the Female Immigration Depot, which housed newly arrived immigrants who stayed for a short time before joining their ...