Dating back to the 7th century BC, it stretches over 13,000 miles across the Chinese landscape, snaking through rugged ...

Sitting at 11,152 feet up in the Andes Mountains is Cusco, the former capital of the Inca empire. The city is one of the ...

Archaeologists discovered ancient Roman inscriptions and a 1,900-year-old coin wedged between rock formations while exploring ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

And it long precedes the advent of dumbbells: the act of lifting stones as both a display and test of physical prowess can be traced back to early societies such as the ancient Greeks. Examples ...

FOR some years past it has been felt by students of anthropology that the limits of their science were being pushed so far in every direction by various enthusiastic workers in almost every ...

Located in the coastal desert of Peru, the archaeological site of Chankillo dates back to the fourth century BCE. This ancient observatory, with its thirteen towers stretching across a hilltop ...

Glass designer Michael Rudak and craftsman John Galvin draw inspiration from Orkney's ancient standing stones for the ... Age alone is not enough to stand out today. There must be more; a heritage ...

Nearly 5,000 years ago, if the ground rumbled and the sky grew dark, it would be impossible for ancient ... designs carved into their surface. They’ve come to be known as “sun stones ...

Artem Shuba via Unsplash Nearly 5,000 years ago, if the ground rumbled and the sky grew dark, it would be impossible for ancient ... designs carved into their surface. Hundreds of sun stones ...