This ancient city in modern-day Bolivia is almost 13,000 feet above sea level. Only a small portion of the ruins have been ...

Archaeologists have long thought that monumental architecture—large, human-built structures that emphasize visibility—were products of societies with power structures, including social hierarchy, ...

The discovery of a Hellenistic period mansion remains in North Macedonia indicates ties with the Ancient Greek world.

Archaeologists have discovered ancient monumental structures in the Peruvian Andes.

Archaeologists in Greece have uncovered a 2,000-year-old tomb near Corinth containing a gold Apollo ring with a healing ...

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The Tiwanaku civilization thrived high in the Andes Mountains long before the Inca Empire started. Located near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, the millennia-old city of Tiwanaku was built almost 13,000 ...

To modern eyes, much of Pompeii’s erotic art might look like ancient pornography. But to the Romans, these images weren’t ...

Stone masonry felt like a forgotten path, a bit niche and old-fashioned. But I think that’s starting to change. There’s growing interest now among young people in heritage crafts, and working with ...

Visitors to northeastern Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region might also accidentally stumble into another country entirely. Tiny ...

Along the bank of a river in southern France, an ancient people built their settlement. The site was occupied from the Paleolithic era until medieval times, and throughout difficult times in ...

This southern Turkish seaside city has all the makings of a memorable break: an atmospheric old town, a Roman harbour full of ...