Stonehenge has long fueled fringe claims about giants, giant skeletons, and even Tower of Babel origins. Modern believers ...

Pompeii Archeological Park site map, with showing where the ancient building site is located, with colour coded piles of raw construction materials (right): purple: debris; green: piles of dry ...

A hidden marvel beneath the earth's surface has emerged near Stonehenge, revealing a story of ancient ingenuity that has left ...

We tend to imagine ancient materials as crude or primitive, but Roman concrete was more sophisticated than anything in use ...

An ancient data point proves a modern transformation.

A new study published in Planet reveals a Micro-XRD method to quantitatively measure the ancient collision histories of meteorites. Researchers from ...

A picture of a crystalline dinosaur egg fossil at Qinglong Mountain in Shiyan, Hubei province, has been selected for Chemical ...

For centuries, extinction has meant the end—but what if it didn’t have to? Using advanced genetic engineering, a handful of biotech companies are working to bring extinct species back to life, from ...

Winding along the Cangzhou section of the Grand Canal, the 308-km road connects more than 300 villages across eight ...

The beauty of vanishing: inside Boucheron’s most poetic collection yet An ancient Japanese tradition has inspired a ...

Using glutinous rice paste as an important building material, the 200-plus-meter-long levee once played an important role in preventing floods and contributed Chinese wisdom to the development of ...

From a Polynesian island ringed by blue lagoons to Chile's gaucho heartland, these are BBC journalists' top destinations this ...