JUST one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still stands – with the rest lost to plunder, fire, earthquakes and the ...

Finding the oldest Maya site ever documented was only the beginning of archaeologist Takeshi Inomata’s discoveries. After ...

Built around 250 BCE with evidence that some parts may be even older, this man-made structure may be one of the earliest examples of Roman monumental architecture other than temples and city walls.

The past three centuries of sporadic excavations at the grand houses of Pompeii have largely remained at eye level. And for ...

Teacher shot by first grader awarded $10 million in civil case Paul Tagliabue, NFL commissioner of 17 years who led an era of ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers ...

Archaeologists have confirmed that Aguada Fénix, the largest and oldest known Maya monument, was designed as a massive cosmogram representing the Maya conception of the universe. New excavations at ...

After innumerable interruptions, delays and setbacks, the world’s largest museum dedicated to a single civilization comes to ...

In Rome’s own mythology, the early city was architecturally restrained and modest. This began to change, its ancient historians wrote, after Rome conquered Greece in the 2nd century B.C.E. and ...

From the Greeks and the Romans to the Ottoman empire, the history of Sardis, Turkey, is one of persistent turnover. But its archaeological investigation has been remarkably consistent. Since 1958, the ...

The long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza has finally reached completion, marking a monumental milestone in the preservation and display of ancient Egyptian civilization. After more than three ...

A recently unearthed ancient monument in southeastern Mexico was built as a giant representation of the Mesoamerican universe ...