A trio of researchers from Universidad de Cantabria and the University of Cambridge has found evidence suggesting that up to a quarter of all ancient handprints found on cave walls in Spain were made ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Mayans set themselves apart as masters of engineering, accomplishing constructive feats once thought to be impossible for ...

Beneath the crowded streets and ancient stone walls of Jerusalem, archaeologists have uncovered a remarkable tunnel that offers a new glimpse into the city’s past. Hidden for centuries beneath layers ...

Art engraved onto tomb walls 4,000 years ago in the South Caucasus tells the story of an ancient community—and, likely, of ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Archaeologists have finished uncovering the longest continuous remains of an ancient wall that encircled Jerusalem, including possible evidence of a 2,100-year-old ceasefire between ...

A pair of ancient tombs featuring paintings of Greek mythological characters, in one of the world’s oldest urban areas, will soon be open to the public. Located in the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon ...

Sometime in the first century B.C., the Roman architect Vitruvius designed a basilica for the colony of Fanum Fortunae on ...

In a list of walls that you’d want to stay strong, those in a nuclear reactor would be near the top. Now, researchers have found that the walls in a decommissioned power plant in Japan have not only ...

After hiking to the top of a remote ridge, he finally reaches a massive ancient ruin with walls still standing in the desert. The structure is bigger than expected, with stone rooms, collapsed ...