Built between the 9th and 7th centuries BC, the Fortress of Van overlooks the modern-day city of the same name and the ruins ...

Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered a 2,400-year-old Ancient Greek Temple of Zeus in Limyra, solving a decades-old mystery.

Cemented dunes in Gale Crater reveal evidence of late-stage water that may have preserved organic signals beneath the Martian ...

Stonehenge is a mysterious prehistoric monument in England, known for its massive stone circles. It was built around 5,000 ...

On the eastern side of the Great Pyramid lies a basalt floor so precisely carved it raises more questions than answers. Could this be evidence of lost technology beyond the reach of tools known to ...

“Megaliths represent the earliest form of monumental stone architecture,” write the authors of the new study, and the Menga ...

Boston University Astronomy Professor Gerald Hawkins has a bone to pick with historians who list the seven wonders of the ancient world. It is not that they have picked the wrong wonders, ...

High above southeastern Turkey, a forgotten king’s dream of immortality has left behind huge stone figures, ancient myths, and a mysterious tomb carved into a windswept mountaintop.

Step through the gates of Olympus and you meet a reality far more exacting than myth: stone fatigue, seismic stress, polluted ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome—and those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a new ...